BIB_ID
420800
Accession number
MA 1352.137
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 December 22.
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 / Twenty Second December 1848."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Second December 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
Regretting that he cannot accept her invitation to dinner; discussing Charley's education; saying "Eton is an assumption of Mr. King's, founded on my entreaty to him about a peculiar mode he has, of teaching the Latin Grammar. I have no doubt whatever, that Harrow is a better school for a boy who has to live, in after-years, by his own exertions. I shall take another look at Nautical presently, I begin to think there must be an o in it - and I am quite sure there's an e. A very little would induce me to believe in a z."
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