BIB_ID
420664
Accession number
MA 1352.104
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 May 22.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 11.3 x 8.9 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 / Twenty Second May 1848."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Second 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
Enclosing references he took by mistake and reporting news of inmates of the Home; advising her about a visit to a former resident who is now in prison: "In case you should, by any evil chance, in visiting Stonnell, encounter a magistrate of the name of Rotch, let me advise you to say nothing to him, either about her, or the Home. For whatever is said to him, he is certain to pervert, if it should suit his purpose, as the Sun is to rise tomorrow morning;" saying that Godfrey's references were "quite satisfactory" and that he had a note from Mrs. Holdsworth "reporting Rubina Waller gouty, Martha Goldsmith ricketty, and the rest of the family 'charming.'"
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