BIB_ID
420657
Accession number
MA 1352.100
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 April 22.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street."
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 / Saturday Evening / Twenty Second April 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 / Saturday Evening / Twenty Second April 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
Stating that he has no knowledge of the writer of the letter which he is enclosing (no longer with the item); referring to a previous letter signed by this person asking him to look at correspondence related to a dispute between Mr. Howitt and a publisher; saying he replied to the gentleman that he "...would not assume the position of an arbitrator in the matter, unless my decision were equally public, whomsoever it affected, and unless I acted by the desire of both parties to the dispute. I heard no more of it. I could easily ascertain in the course of Monday, whether the story told you is a true one. Which I will do, unless you should desire me not."
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