BIB_ID
421274
Accession number
MA 1352.279
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Dover, England, 1852 August 8.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
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 Eighth August 1852."
Envelope with postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
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 Eighth 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 that he received the £10 note for Mrs. Goldsmith and delivered it to her; adding "I am glad you think so well of the case. It certainly is helping those who help themselves. There must be some odd electrical disturbance in the air, I think. Everybody is complaining of being more or less nervously affected. Mr. Forster (who has gone, for a change, to Tavistock House) fluctuates like Mrs. Brown, and makes slow progress;" sending his regards to Mr. Brown and saying he is "...glad Brighton did him so much good."
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