BIB_ID
421023
Accession number
MA 1352.209
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1850 August 12.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 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 / Monday Evening / Twelfth August 1850."
The letter that Dickens enclosed, by the printseller Francis Graham Moon about the artist De Lara, has been preserved and is cataloged as MA 1352.661.
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Holly Lodge."
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 / Monday Evening / Twelfth August 1850."
The letter that Dickens enclosed, by the printseller Francis Graham Moon about the artist De Lara, has been preserved and is cataloged as MA 1352.661.
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Holly Lodge."
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
Sending her "...Moon's answer about De Lara, just received. - And very satisfactory!! I will enquire immediately about Mr. Elliott. I know his hand, but cannot recall how. And I have a disagreeable impression in connexion with it, though I can't remember what. Which is also extremely satisfactory;" adding that he will attend the Shepherd's Bush Committee meeting and that there are "...no other cases yet ready [...] She whom I picked out, declines - or her father for her."
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