BIB_ID
420583
Accession number
MA 1352.84
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1847 November 27.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.3 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 "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Seventh November 1847. / Saturday."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Seventh November 1847. / Saturday."
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
Reporting on "disappointment Number One [...] which I was summoned out, as I was going to bed last night, to see to, and have been busy with all night and ever since. I am now obliged to follow Mrs. Dickens who was obliged to go away without me this morning, and am half dead with cold on the chest and loss of voice, but not in the least disheartened as to the Home;" adding that Mr. Chesterton will call on her on Monday afternoon to relate the details of the matter, giving her his address for the coming week unless he should be summoned back by Mr. Chesterton.
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