BIB_ID
421301
Accession number
MA 1352.285
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Dover, England, 1852 September 12.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.0 x 11.3 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 "10 Camden Crescent Dover / Sunday Twelfth September 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 "10 Camden Crescent Dover / Sunday Twelfth September 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
Saying "I send you the Prospectus of the sensible and really useful Society [The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes]. I hope you saw Dr. Southwood Smith and Mr. Austin yesterday, and that there are things to be done in Westminster which can be easily done;" asking for news of Mrs. Brown.
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