BIB_ID
420820
Accession number
MA 1352.146
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 February 27.
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 / Twenty Seventh February 1849."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Seventh 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
Apologizing that he was engaged the previous night "until it was too late to come to you;" adding that he will be "very glad to hear what you have done about the Home" and will call on her the following day or the day after; asking if he may use her box at Franconi's if it is not being used the following Friday.
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