BIB_ID
421305
Accession number
MA 1352.562
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1856 August 10?.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written in pencil.
Neither a place nor a date of writing is given. On the verso, possibly Hannah Brown's hand: "To ask -- / Memorandum of CD / Septr 22d 1856." In The Letters of Charles Dickens, Storey and Tillotson posit that this sheet may have been enclosed with Dickens's letter to Hannah Brown dated August 10, 1856 (cataloged as MA 1352.562). See Note 1, page 172 in the published correspondence, cited below.
The item 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.
Neither a place nor a date of writing is given. On the verso, possibly Hannah Brown's hand: "To ask -- / Memorandum of CD / Septr 22d 1856." In The Letters of Charles Dickens, Storey and Tillotson posit that this sheet may have been enclosed with Dickens's letter to Hannah Brown dated August 10, 1856 (cataloged as MA 1352.562). See Note 1, page 172 in the published correspondence, cited below.
The item 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.
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
Concerning two articles in the deed establishing an Exhibition at St. George's Hospital in memory of her husband Dr. William Brown; asking whether the proposed procedure for the examination as laid out in the deed is common.
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