BIB_ID
421277
Accession number
MA 1352.281
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 August 21.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm
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 "Tavistock House / Saturday Twenty First August . 1852."
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 / Saturday Twenty First August . 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
Thanking her for the money she sent for Charley; recommending that if a report from the Prison is favorable he "...would take the girl" and recommends the support of "Mrs. Chisholm's plan;" reporting that he had just come from Shepherd's Bush "...where all was well and in perfect order. I told Mrs. Morson that I thought she had best not call the next Committee - there being no one in town - but send the bills to me here. I should very much like, before the winter comes on, to pave that back yard with flagstones, if you don't object;" adding, in a postscript, his concern for Mrs. Brown: "We are all so interested about Mrs. Brown - and so disappointed to hear that she has not got on faster. I was not without a hope that I might find her in town with you and looking brisk and happy again."
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