BIB_ID
420643
Accession number
MA 1352.97
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 March 21.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 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 / Tuesday Evening / Twenty First March 1848."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Tuesday Evening / Twenty First March 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
Referring to a possible meeting he was to have had with her the following day which he cannot keep; saying "I must resign myself to Dombey (not yet finished, but whom I am lingering over, with a great desire to carry my care of him and his to the last) until, - I think, - Thursday Night. Mrs. Dickens and I would like to dine with you that day, very much indeed, but, even if I have finished by dinner-time I shall be in a foolish kind of condition where I am better left to walk about by myself. Therefore, unless I hear from you to the contrary, I will come to you (having a few things I should like to say in reference to Shepherd's Bush) on Friday at 11."
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