BIB_ID
420543
Accession number
MA 1352.73
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1847 July 14.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.3 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss 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 "Broadstairs, Kent. / Fourteenth July 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 "Broadstairs, Kent. / Fourteenth July 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
Saying he will be in London the following week and proposing a time to call on her; adding, in a postscript, "Charley thoroughly recovered - fat - and brown."
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