BIB_ID
420486
Accession number
MA 1352.63
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1847 January 12.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.1 cm
Notes
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 "48 Rue de Courcelles, Paris. / Twelfth January 1847."
Written from "48 Rue de Courcelles, Paris. / Twelfth January 1847."
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
Discussing issues surrounding "habits of intoxication;" enclosing a note of introduction to the head of a school at Limestone; thanking her for the cake she sent to Charley and saying he will be coming to visit her "...with a Kings College paper for you to sign...;" adding "I feel it is a kind of common honesty to say, that from some of the public opinions and proceedings of the Bishop of London [Blomfield], I must strongly dissent - holding them to be ungenerous and inconsiderate towards the multitude who work hard for their bread - and by no means conceived in the true Spirit of Christianity. But I desire to say this to you - not to him - and I will willingly call on him when I come back; trusting in the unlikelihood of such questions arising out of any conversation between us."
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