BIB_ID
420623
Accession number
MA 1352.94
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 February 8.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.0 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 / Tuesday Morning / Eighth February 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 / Tuesday Morning / Eighth February 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
Reporting that he is going to Chelsea Hospital to get John Hullah and take him to the Home; adding "May the Dragon [i.e., Hullah] turn out as well as I expect! I have really very great hopes of the beneficial influence of the singing, in combination with all the other things. For it seems to me, to be so much the kind of ingredient we want."
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