BIB_ID
420859
Accession number
MA 1352.158
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 May 16.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.2 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 from "Devonshire Terrace / Wednesday Sixteenth May / 1849."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Wednesday Sixteenth May / 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
Enclosing a document related to the case of Mary Jones and fearing the case against her is strong; saying "I am afraid her story is quite untrue. There is still a possibility of its being true, because there is a possibility of the neighbour represented to have seen her take money out of the till, being false. But the probabilities are very strong indeed against her;" adding, in a postscript, that he had been to Shepherd's Bush and consulted with Mrs. Morson about a dispute between two women; saying "I have a very strong hope that she is exactly the person we have always wanted."
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