BIB_ID
420874
Accession number
MA 1352.165
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 June 29.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 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 from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Ninth June 1849."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty Ninth 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
Reporting on "the case I mentioned to you" and saying that he learned she has friends who can help her emigrate to Australia, so he believes there is no need to take her into the Home; adding that after he has "finished my next number - which desirable event will take place, I hope, in about a fortnight - I will ask you to have the kindness to give me half an hour one morning and let me devote it to the subject of Charley."
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