BIB_ID
420852
Accession number
MA 1352.471
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1856 December 24.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Dated "Christmas Eve."
Written from "Tavistock House."
Envelope addressed to: "Miss Burdett Coutts."
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 addressed to: "Miss Burdett Coutts."
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
Wishing her and Hannah Brown "[m]any, many, many happy Christmases and New Years;" thanking her for a present of letter weights: "Beautiful in themselves - 'tidy' - orderly - congenial in all such respects, they have deeper and invisible value to me, never my dear friend to be stated in words;" saying that he will come around tomorrow at 2: "You say 'Stratton Street', and to Stratton Street my Compass shall direct me."
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