BIB_ID
420614
Accession number
MA 1352.91
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 January 14.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts."
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 / Fourteenth January 1848."
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 / Fourteenth 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
Concerning a candidate "for the vacant post of Instructress;" reporting that he was at Shepherd's Bush the previous night and spoke with Julia Mozley; saying "Her manner of replying, in the presence of the rest, was so very sullen and insolent that I fear some strong notice of it must be taken on Tuesday. In observance of the principle laid down for the other governing powers, I did not take the least notice of it to anybody, at the time, but it will not do to let it pass;" adding, in a postscript, "I have sent out the Carpenter to make the alteration of the upper bedroom door, this morning."
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