BIB_ID
420603
Accession number
MA 1352.87
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1847 December 22.
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Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.0 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 Second December 1847. / Wednesday Evening."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Second December 1847. / Wednesday Evening."
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
Referring to a Mrs. White and a situation that should involve Miss Coutts' solicitor; saying that he must stay in to finish Dombey the following day and adding "I would favor Mrs. White with a call tonight, but I am sure that to do the thing effectually, she should be waited on by two people, and one of those a solicitor who might presently dispose of her."
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