BIB_ID
421056
Accession number
MA 1352.222
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1850 November 8.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.1 x 12.6 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 on the letterhead of the Office of Household Words on "Friday Evening Eighth Nov'r 1850."
Envelope with Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street." Written above the address, in an unknown hand, "about Davis & Humphreys."
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 on the letterhead of the Office of Household Words on "Friday Evening Eighth Nov'r 1850."
Envelope with Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street." Written above the address, in an unknown hand, "about Davis & Humphreys."
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
Discussing an apparent theft at the Home and the two girls Dickens suspects of being responsible, who have run away; adding that he has "...instructed the Police to take the girls up, if they can find them, as I am confident that the example would be better than any precept. I ought to tell you that I have narrowly investigated everything, and that I cannot conclude that any blame attaches, either to Mrs. Morson or Mrs. Macartney."
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