BIB_ID
420754
Accession number
MA 1352.127
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 October 18.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.0 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 on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Wednesday Eighteenth October / 1848."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Wednesday Eighteenth 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
Telling her he has written to Lord Grey; saying his letter "...contains everything that requires to be said, I think. And I cannot but imagine that the Government may be a better assistant (if it will) than the Emigration Companies;" reporting that he was at the Home and all is "quiet and well. The Dairy, I should say, would certainly be practicable now;" referring to Miss Newton and Lord Ashley's good intentions; asking, if she wishes to make an appointment with him, that it be in the afternoon, as "I am trying to be industrious in the mornings."
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