BIB_ID
420790
Accession number
MA 1352.458
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Boulogne, France, 1856 July 15.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written from Boulogne.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Miss Burdett Coutts / Prospect Hill / Reading."
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 Boulogne.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Miss Burdett Coutts / Prospect Hill / Reading."
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.
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
Saying that he is reluctant to reject Reverend Julian Young's memoir of his father, the actor Charles Mayne Young, but it would be out of place in Household Words; asking her to assure Young that he will take the first oppportunity to mention his father in the magazine in any articles he writes about acting and the theater; commenting on Richard Dunn and the accusations he has made towards members of the royal family; drawing her attention to a story by Wilkie Collins in a forthcoming issue of Household Words; saying that Charley is concerned he may have no vacation, as Joshua Bates (partner of Baring Brothers) had "enunciated the dismal sentiment that the Juniors are to have none [...] I am afraid he really requires a little reviving from the dust and heat of London;" introducing a paragraph with a manicule and saying that John Forster is marrying a rich widow and giving up the editing of Examiner, "which is to be regretted, as he is one of the most responsible and careful of literary men associated with newspapers -- though he does hustle an unoffending Company, sometimes;" sending his love to Hannah Brown.
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