BIB_ID
421161
Accession number
MA 1352.261
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 April 20.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 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 / Twentieth April 1852."
Written from "Tavistock House / Twentieth April 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
Reporting on his interview with a prospective inmate; saying "I cannot say I am at all confident of success in the case, but I think it one it is quite right to try...she seems quite earnest in her application; and if you can save her, you will save a very good average representative of a large class. I would most certainly try her. If you will reply 'yes', I will send Mrs. Morson for her, tomorrow;" adding, in a postscript, "She says she wants to be sent to Port Philip if possible 'because she has been told she has an uncle there, who is rich.'"
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