BIB_ID
421136
Accession number
MA 1352.250
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 February 29.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.0 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 "Tavistock House / Sunday Twenty Ninth February / 1852."
Written from "Tavistock House / Sunday Twenty Ninth February / 1852."
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
Saying "I opened the enclosed (from the chaplain of the House of Detention) after you left last night. I don't like to reply to it without first writing to you, but I fear there is no possibility of our taking the case, on account of our being full? Is there?"
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