BIB_ID
420607
Accession number
MA 1352.89
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 January 7.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.1 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 / Seventh January 1848."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Seventh January 1848."
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
Enclosing a list of the expenses for Shepherd's Bush, commenting on some of them and explaining what has been paid to date; saying he would like to see her; saying "I have been much dismayed by what I have heard about the books (I mean the reading books) at the Home, and imagine there is some mistake, but it makes me very unquiet, and extremely anxious to speak with you on the subject. There is also a point in reference to the acceptance or rejection of one new Inmate that I deem it necessary to submit to you for your decision;" enclosing a document from Charley "...which looks so like a begging-letter that I am afraid to send it by itself lest it should not be taken in - and therefore enclose it."
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