BIB_ID
421131
Accession number
MA 1352.248
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 February 19.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.0 cm
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 from "Tavistock House / Thursday Eighteenth February / 1852." The published letter, cited below, suggests that Dickens misdated this letter and the correct date is February 19th, as it "clearly follows the preceding letter" which is dated "Thursday, Nineteenth February."
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 "Tavistock House / Thursday Eighteenth February / 1852." The published letter, cited below, suggests that Dickens misdated this letter and the correct date is February 19th, as it "clearly follows the preceding letter" which is dated "Thursday, Nineteenth February."
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 this as a postscript to his letter earlier that day (see MA 1352.247); declining an invitation for Monday evening and saying he went to the House of Detention and saw "three cases - neither of which will do, in consequence of the girls not wanting to go abroad."
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