BIB_ID
420844
Accession number
MA 1352.150
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 March 24.
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 Twenty Fourth March / 1849."
Written on mourning stationery from "Devonshire Terrace / Saturday Twenty Fourth March / 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
Regretting he "...cannot meet you at Shepherd's Bush today. In pursuance of virtuous resolutions to be beforehand, I am hard at work finishing the first Number of my new book;" suggesting times he could meet the following week and saying he would like to give her his thoughts on her "two Mark-Table suggestions."
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