BIB_ID
421104
Accession number
MA 1352.238
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1851 August 24.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.0 cm + envelope
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 on mourning stationery from "Broadstairs / Sunday Twenty Fourth August / 1851."
Mourning envelope with postage stamp, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Holly Lodge / Highgate / London."
Written on mourning stationery from "Broadstairs / Sunday Twenty Fourth August / 1851."
Mourning envelope with postage stamp, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Holly Lodge / Highgate / London."
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
Concerning the details of an emigration ship; saying "I cannot possibly write the particulars of the Ship, to Mrs. Morson, because I don't know them. You have not returned me the letter in which they are stated! If there were any means of sending this to you by Railway (to facilitate your communicating with Mrs. Morson) I would send it so; but there is no train until late in the afternoon [...] I am going to Bath on Tuesday, but purpose being here again by Saturday, and shall be delighted to bid you good bye at Folkestone, if you will give me a day or two's notice of your coming there."
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