BIB_ID
421010
Accession number
MA 1352.204
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1850 July 14.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
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 / Sunday, Fourteenth July / 1850."
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts."
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 / Sunday, Fourteenth July / 1850."
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts."
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
Acknowledging receipt of her notes and reporting that he has "...the letters, carefully bundled and labelled, here. I have sent to Mrs. Morson, today, Caroline Canlon's address - her name is Hunt - exactly copied from her letter."
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