BIB_ID
420495
Accession number
MA 1352.67
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1847 April 29.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 10.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street."
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 "1 Chester Place / Twenty Ninth April 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 "1 Chester Place / Twenty Ninth April 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
Concerning a location for the Institution; saying "I am going on Saturday Morning, with Mr. Chesterton, to look at a house near Notting Hill, that we think likely to suit the Institution. Unless I should hear from you to the contrary, I will call on you that same day with my report, at about One o'Clock. Mrs. Dickens, I am happy to say, is wonderfully well : and Charley has come home (with very short hair) to his brothers and sisters."
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