BIB_ID
420613
Accession number
MA 1352.90
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 January 10.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.2 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 / Monday Night / Tenth January 1848."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Monday Night / Tenth 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
Expressing his concern on hearing "...there is anything wrong at Shepherd's Bush. I should have been there yesterday or today, but am perfectly overpowered with a cold that seems like a second Edition of my former one, and is most ridiculously intense. But I shall be at my post tomorrow, and will not fail to let you know through Mr. Brown all that has been done;" commenting on a young woman's letter and adding "Mrs. Dickens is down stairs again, and wishes me to thank you for your kind remembrance of her."
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