BIB_ID
420818
Accession number
MA 1352.145
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 February 10.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 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 / Saturday Evening / Tenth February 1849."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Saturday Evening / Tenth February 1849."
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
Reporting that "all quiet and comfortable at Shepherd's Bush this afternoon. Miss Cunliffe rigidly secluded in her own chamber - making a perfect Brougham of herself in point of Oratory, I have no doubt. In entering Isabella Gordon's case, by the bye, I incidentally found that the aforesaid Miss Cunliffe (but that is no matter, as she is going) had been already questioning her about her past life."
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