BIB_ID
420491
Accession number
MA 1352.65
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1847 January 27.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 10.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal, postmarks and Dickens' signature "Angleterre. Affranchie. 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 "Paris, 48 Rue de Courcelles. / Twenty Seventh January 1847."
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 "Paris, 48 Rue de Courcelles. / Twenty Seventh 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
Telling her when Charley will call on her and referring to his payment to the school; saying "Charley goes to his house on Wednesday Evening. I will not attempt to tell you how ardently I hope that his career may do honor to your friendship and kindness, or how much I stake on the belief and trust that it will. Mrs. Dickens begs me to send her cordial regards. Charley is in great spirits at present, and full of great intentions, but I don't know how he may feel when he gets into the Malle Poste that is to take him away from his sisters and all the rest. But it is 'only for two months' he says, in allusion to our coming home again; 'and they are soon gone.'"
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