BIB_ID
420748
Accession number
MA 1352.126
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 October 14.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.0 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
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 / Saturday Night / Fourteenth October 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 / Saturday Night / Fourteenth October 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
Reporting that he has made the "alterations and additions you suggested in those papers, and they are now finally printing;" discussing a candidate for the Home and adding that he does not feel that any of the current inmates would be suitable to work in the Cambridge Heath Laundry; discussing issues surrounding possible emigration of an inmate as to "where they are to go or how they are to go, or that they are going at all in this young woman's direction."
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