BIB_ID
421342
Accession number
MA 1352.297
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 November 3.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm
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 / Third November 1852."
Written from "Tavistock House / Third November 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
Discussing Charley's plan to leave school and go to Germany; commenting on the funeral for the Duke of Wellington: "I am quite vexed about the State Funeral. I think it is altogether wrong as regards the memory of the Duke, and at least equally wrong in the Court estimate it implies of the People. The nonsense of the Herald's College and Lord Chamberlain absurdities, keep his own soldiers away; the only real links of sympathy the public could have found in it are carefully filed off; and a vulgar holiday, with a good deal of business for the thieves and the public houses, will be the chief result;" adding "You will see an account of an Irish Workhouse in the current No. of Household Words, which seems to be rather a good commentary on the rampant Irish nonsense (and worse) about the Saxon;" asking, in a postscript, if he could use her box at Drury Lane "...once or twice during Jullien's [the conductor and composer Louis Antoine Jullien] Concert season."
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