BIB_ID
420891
Accession number
MA 1352.480
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1857 March 1.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from "Tavistock House."
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.
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
Saying that he doesn't see anything to object to in a report (probably about the death of a woman at St. George's Hospital): "You have done great good ; an obviously bad thing is set right ; and although it would have been much better ingenuously done in the beginning than disingenuously, done it is, and many poor people will be the happier and better for it;" promising to return the pamphlet on Common Things and her corrections in the course of the week.
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