BIB_ID
420775
Accession number
MA 1352.132
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 November 7.
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 / Seventh November 1848."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Seventh November 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
Referring to a matter at the bank for which he may need to write a letter; saying he is pleased that Mrs. Furze is leaving and adding "Your arrangement about the Mark Paper, is indeed a master-stroke. I think you would, after that, make a brilliant figure as a Diplomatist. I must say, however, that that feeling of which you say some symptoms are still latent, does not encourage me, because it appears to me a stubborn and unreasonable one, and to bespeak anything rather than the right state of mind. No woman at the Home who is not quite satisfied that her past life was vicious and miserable, will ever keep out of it when she is free again. The delicacy which can't bear such a homeopathic dose of truth as that, won't bear work I fear."
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