BIB_ID
420834
Accession number
MA 1352.464
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1856 October 30.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written from "Tavistock House."
Envelope with stamps and postmarks: "Miss Burdett Coutts / Veale's Royal Hotel / Teignmouth / Devon."
Dickens enclosed a letter from Bentley, listing the paintings under discussion and the treatment he recommends for them. This letter is dated October 28, 1856 and has been cataloged as MA 1352.632.
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 "Tavistock House."
Envelope with stamps and postmarks: "Miss Burdett Coutts / Veale's Royal Hotel / Teignmouth / Devon."
Dickens enclosed a letter from Bentley, listing the paintings under discussion and the treatment he recommends for them. This letter is dated October 28, 1856 and has been cataloged as MA 1352.632.
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
Reporting on his visit to William Bentley, in regards to having paintings she owns cleaned; outlining Bentley's terms; mentioning that Bentley bid for many of the pictures on behalf of Thomas Baring, when they were sold at the Samuel Rogers sale; expressing his complete confidence in Bentley's trustworthiness and professionalism; asking for her permission to proceed; mentioning a legal case potentially involving her and the advice he gave to W. Henry Wills on the matter; relaying Urania Cottage news and saying that the matron and assistant matron (Mrs. Marchmont and Mrs. Macartney) feel ashamed at having lost her confidence; making a suggestion to improve the situation; describing how busy he has been; sending love to Hannah Brown; writing that Charley is spending the week going back and forth to Joshua Bates's country home in Surrey with him, and he is the object of much admiration at Baring Brothers because of this; enclosing a letter from Thomas Baring (no longer with the item).
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