BIB_ID
421266
Accession number
MA 1352.277
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Dover, England, 1852 August 3.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 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 "Dover, 10 Camden Crescent / Tuesday Third August 1852."
Envelope with postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Written from "Dover, 10 Camden Crescent / Tuesday Third 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
Confirming the amount of assistance requested by a clergyman as one hundred pounds (see MA 1352.276); asking that she have the money for the clergyman delivered to the office of Household Words "...as I am likely to be kept at the office some hours;" asking, in a postscript, "In giving the Clergyman the money, may I tell him from whom it comes?"
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