BIB_ID
420659
Accession number
MA 1352.101
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 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 / Wednesday Tenth May 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 / Wednesday Tenth May 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 Mr. Hullah's wish to try Mr. Bannister's pupils himself; saying "Thinking you might like to be there too, and would find it interesting, I send you this notice [...] Maconnochie has sent me a kind of protocol concerning such Institutions, which seems to me to be wrong from beginning to end. I will make my notes upon it, and shew it to you. His head seems to be so full of the Mark System, that he has not room to turn another idea in it."
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