BIB_ID
421198
Accession number
MA 1352.534
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1847?.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11 cm
Notes
Dickens gives only "Thursday Evg." for the date of writing. Based on the handwriting, Storey and Fielding suggest that the letter may have been written in 1847. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Written from "Devonshire Terrace."
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 "Devonshire Terrace."
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.
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 "I am always for the promptest measures -- and I suppose made you laugh by my ferocity;" proposing to call her on tomorrow afternoon at quarter past four.
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