BIB_ID
420665
Accession number
MA 1352.105
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 May 23.
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 Twenty Third May / 1848."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Tuesday Twenty Third 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
Discussing Sally (the assistant Matron), Mrs. Graves and Miss Cunliffe; saying of Sally "I am sorry for her, - but I must say I think she is less adapted to the situation than anything else in the human form of which I have any idea. It strikes me that Mrs. Graves must walk without knowing why, and that everybody else must walk after her. Miss Cunliffe was here yesterday. I like her very much. There is something in her face, exceedingly agreeable and promising, and she improves greatly on being talked to [...] I think she promises very well indeed, and I feel an interest in her."
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