BIB_ID
420792
Accession number
MA 1352.135
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 November 18.
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Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 10.9 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 / Saturday Evening / Eighteenth November 1848."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Saturday Evening / Eighteenth 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
Returning a letter related to emigration; reporting on the medical condition of the "poor Courier" [Louis Roche] whose admission to St. George's Hospital Miss Coutts helped secure; adding "The haunted man won't do something I want him to do - or at least nothing would induce him to do it until this morning, when he suddenly seemed to become more tractable."
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