BIB_ID
421317
Accession number
MA 1352.293
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 October 27.
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 "Tavistock House / Wednesday Twenty Seventh October / 1852."
Envelope with postmark and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly."
Written from "Tavistock House / Wednesday Twenty Seventh October / 1852."
Envelope with postmark and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly."
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
Setting the time for a meeting at her house with Mr. Austin; adding "I send you, numbered in their order, three letters from a certain poor lady. I know nothing of her, but I thought the first one genuine, and sent a discreet messenger to see her and her house - of which he reported most favorably. I thought it just possible that you might approve of the case; but of course I have made no kind of reference to you, and have encouraged no hopes whatever."
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