BIB_ID
421055
Accession number
MA 1352.507
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1858 April 28.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Dickens gives the place of writing as "at Townshend's." This is probably a reference to Chauncy Hare Townshend.
Envelope addressed 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.
Dickens gives the place of writing as "at Townshend's." This is probably a reference to Chauncy Hare Townshend.
Envelope addressed 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.
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
Promising her that he will get Robert Gray, Bishop of Cape Town, in to his reading at St. Martin's Hall; adding "I hope to be able to contrive a Chair near you, -- but I cannot speak with confidence, because I trust all these things to my trusty man of business [Arthur Smith], and I suppose him to have been beset all day;" promising to write her this evening after he sees Smith.
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