BIB_ID
421237
Accession number
MA 1352.543
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1852?.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.9 x 11 cm
Notes
The memorandum is not dated. Dickens's letter to Angela Burdett-Coutts dated December 3, 1852 (cataloged as MA 1352.299) refers to a young woman named Wallis who is about to be admitted to Urania Cottage. This memorandum may describe the same woman and may have been created at around the same time. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
The memorandum 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.
The memorandum 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
Describing Ann Wallis: "Lives with her father, and stepmother -- good looking -- can read and write -- has only been leading a bad life, three weeks -- is very anxious to go abroad," listing an address.
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