BIB_ID
420741
Accession number
MA 1352.124
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 October 5.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.0 cm + envelope
Notes
Mourning envelope with seal and postmark to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Birthwaite Hotel / Windermere / Westmoreland."
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 on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Thursday October Fifth / 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 on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Thursday October Fifth / 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 the proofs and the printing of the Mark Table; saying everything seemed to be "comfortable and quiet" at the Home; giving her an accounting of the cash on hand and bills paid by Mrs. Holdsworth; reporting on the Venetian blinds and on the possibility of renting out fields at the side and bottom of the garden; telling her about the difficulty he had in reading "a rather illegible passage in one of your notes."
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