BIB_ID
421058
Accession number
MA 1352.508
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 page) ; 17.7 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written on stationery with the embossed heading "Mr. / Charles Dickens's / Reading," which appears on a blue background on both the writing paper and the envelope. Dickens was presumably writing from St. Martin's Hall.
Envelope addressed to: "Miss Burdett Coutts / 1 Stratton Street."
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 stationery with the embossed heading "Mr. / Charles Dickens's / Reading," which appears on a blue background on both the writing paper and the envelope. Dickens was presumably writing from St. Martin's Hall.
Envelope addressed to: "Miss Burdett Coutts / 1 Stratton Street."
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
Writing, in reference to his reading the next day at St. Martin's Hall, that "Mr. Arthur Smith has achieved the thing, and sends the enclosed 'Chair' by you, for the Bishop of Cape Town [Robert Gray]."
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