BIB_ID
421264
Accession number
MA 1352.276
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Dover, England, 1852 August 1.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm + envelope
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 "10 Camden Crescent, Dover / Sunday First August 1852."
Envelope with postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Written from "10 Camden Crescent, Dover / Sunday First August 1852."
Envelope with postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
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 inquiries he has made "...into the case of the Clergyman Mr. Richards...I need not observe that we have made all these enquiries with as much delicacy as care, and that no one has any idea of your being in any way connected with them. Will you let me know by return post what you will do for him, and whether I shall come to you for the money on Wednesday forenoon when I come to town? I am sorry that I cannot be at the Committee tomorrow, but I am steeped in work;" expressing his thanks to Mr. Brown for his kind note on the death of his friend Richard Watson and adding "Poor dear fellow he was with us this day three weeks, so happy, and so full of Christmas plans for Rockingham!"
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