BIB_ID
421138
Accession number
MA 1352.252
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 March 2.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 10.9 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 / Tuesday Evening / Second March 1852."
There is what appears to be a financial accounting for £50 written on the verso in an unknown hand, possibly Miss Coutts's, dated Wednesday March 3 / 52.
Written from "Tavistock House / Tuesday Evening / Second March 1852."
There is what appears to be a financial accounting for £50 written on the verso in an unknown hand, possibly Miss Coutts's, dated Wednesday March 3 / 52.
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
Reporting on the Committee meeting at which both Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Tracey were in attendance and his advance to Mrs. Morson of £50 for petty cash; reporting on his visit with Mr. Hardwick "...to the ground yesterday, and went minutely over it, and the immediate neighbourhood. I mentioned something to him in reference to the position of such houses as you may build which I will mention to you, and which I think you will quite agree with. We afterwards went to 'The Model Buildings' - a collection of small houses which I visited when they were first erected by a Society, and which I should greatly like you to see one day. I enclose the plan. The chip shall be duly presented. We were obliged to go to Press again with Bleak House No. 1, last night."
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