BIB_ID
421207
Accession number
MA 1352.275
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 July 28.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 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 / Wednesday afternoon / Twenty Eighth July 1852."
Written from "Tavistock House / Wednesday afternoon / Twenty Eighth July 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
Writing in haste before he returns to Dover; enclosing a letter which "...seems very touching. Would you like to do any thing in such a case. If you would, and will tell me so, I can get the strictest and most complete enquiry made into it immediately. If, for a thousand reasons, you cannot consider it (which is very possible indeed) do not trouble yourself to write."
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