BIB_ID
420958
Accession number
MA 1352.490
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1857 July 25.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
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.
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.
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 received a letter that morning from the theater manager Arthur Smith, "in which no allusion was made to you in any way, but in which I immediately perceived your ever kind and thoughtful influence;" mentioning a meeting of his theater company and the question of engaging actresses; adding that they have committed to another performance of "The Frozen Deep" at the Gallery of Illustration: "We must get £2,000 free of expences, before we leave off. I hope I shall be left free for Gad's Hill by the middle of August. It is rather hard work, after a long book [a reference to Little Dorrit]."
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