BIB_ID
420868
Accession number
MA 1352.162
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 June 8.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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 / Eighth June 1849."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Eighth June 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
Discussing a letter from a Job Joynes as "...so very affecting that I am angry with myself for having laughed until I cried, at it. The most comical circumstance about it seems to be that poor Joynes plumes himself immensely on his composition - and there is something, I am ashamed to say, quite irresistible in that idea, and in his extraordinary use of the 'unworthy' adjective, and the wonderful means he resorts to for spelling some of his words;" discussing an issue related to Mr. Scott's ponds, which they wish to have drained.
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