BIB_ID
421306
Accession number
MA 1352.288
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Dover, England, 1852 September 21.
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 "10 Camden Crescent Dover / Tuesday Twenty First September / 1852."
Envelope with postage stamp, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Written from "10 Camden Crescent Dover / Tuesday Twenty First September / 1852."
Envelope with postage stamp, 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
Enclosing a reply from Mr. Stone but suggesting "...that our making the appointment would be useless, and that I had better look out in some other direction;" saying he is going to talk with Mr. Austin who is in Sandgate; adding "I hope you are well at Brighton - or will be, by the time when this shall reach you - and that it will agree with Mrs. Brown. As it is often an uncertain place with invalids and makes them restless, I hope you will not be dispirited if she don't seem quite so well there."
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