BIB_ID
421034
Accession number
MA 1352.215
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1850 September 13.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm
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 "Broadstairs / Thirteenth September 1850."
Written from "Broadstairs / Thirteenth September 1850."
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
Reporting that he told Mrs. Morson to cancel the Committee meeting as he could not attend due to work and he knew she was away; adding that he asked Mrs. Morson for the accounts and he is enclosing the book; saying "I am sorry to say that the Ragged School girls seem (on her report) desperately unpromising. If they fail, we shall have tried 'em - and made an end of 'em! Miss Payne, their teacher, addresses the enclosed to you, and sends it to me to forward. I am afraid you will not find it agreeably expressed - she seems to me to be always blowing a shrill set of spiritual Pan's pipes - but she is earnest, though bitterly in want of sound teaching for the office of teacher;" adding that he has asked Bradbury and Evans to send her books for her inspection and that "In about a week or so, when I hope to have finished the current Copperfield, I shall come to town for a day, and carry a severe countenance into the Bush."
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