BIB_ID
420670
Accession number
MA 1352.108
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 June 29.
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 / Twenty Ninth June 1848."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Ninth June 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. Scott's letter; saying "I should like to know whether your genius can make out Mr. Scott's meaning. Mine can't. He is one of the most abstruse letter writers I ever had to deal with. I enclose his note, which, in its general style, is not unlike that which was sent to Lord Monteagle about the gunpowder plot;" enclosing a letter from a "Middlesex Magistrate who "...knows something of one or two of our protegées, and the letter is so clearly designed to reach you, that I send it. I have not the least interest in, or knowledge of, the case; but I know he is to be relied upon. This is sad sickness at Shepherd's Bush, whither I am now bound;" asking her if he may call on her the following day if he does not find her at the Home.
Catalog link
Department