BIB_ID
421071
Accession number
MA 1352.226
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1851 January 18.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.1 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 "Devonshire Terrace / Eighteenth January 1851."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Eighteenth January 1851."
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
Enclosing a letter which he thought "...might afford you a laugh;" telling her of the delight her letter to Charley gave him and Mrs. Dickens, saying "It came most opportunely, for I am not so happy with some of my other relations, who are mill stones round my neck. One of my brothers is rasping my very heart just now, by trading on my name. However, when I think of you and all your attendant phaenomona, I have the consolation of good company!"
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