BIB_ID
420898
Accession number
MA 1352.173
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Bonchurch, England, 1849 August 15.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.2 cm + envelope
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 "Winterbourne, Bonchurch / Fifteenth August 1849."
Envelope with seal, postage stamp, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Written from "Winterbourne, Bonchurch / Fifteenth August 1849."
Envelope with seal, postage stamp, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
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 "If I come to town at all before I return for good, I shall hope to be initiated into the beauties of Holly Lodge. But ever since I have been here, I have been quite unwell with a monstrous cold, which has now resolved itself (for a change) into a cough like 'the faithful watch-dog's honest bark'. Mrs. Goldsmith's husband is the Grandson of the brother to whom he dedicated the Traveller. My mind misgives me that I said 'deserted Village' the other day. He is the Grandson of the identical clergyman 'passing rich with forty pounds a year', whom Oliver admired and loved."
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