BIB_ID
420151
Accession number
MA 1352.59
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1846 June 25.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Angleterre / Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Rosemont, Lausanne, Switzerland / Twenty Fifth June 1846."
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Rosemont, Lausanne, Switzerland / Twenty Fifth June 1846."
Provenance
The letters formed part of the Burdett-Coutts sale (Sotheby, 17 May 1922); they were purchased for Oliver W. Barrett in whose collection they remained until it was sold by his son (Parke-Bernet, 31 October 1951).
Summary
Describing the house where they are living, Charley's school in Ouchy, the weather and his writing; saying "I am contemplating terrific and tremendous industry - am mightily resolved to begin the book in Numbers without delay - and have already begun to look the little Christmas Volume in its small red face; though I hardly know it by sight yet;" sending his and Mrs. Dickens' regards to her and to Mr. and Mrs. Brown; adding, in a postscript, "I am much distressed by having no room for the flourish."
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