BIB_ID
421347
Accession number
MA 1352.300
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 December 6.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 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 / Sixth December 1852."
Written from "Tavistock House / Sixth December 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
Relating arrangements for work on the Westminster project to "...be done under the direction of the Board of Health, and the proprietors forewarned that they could not possibly interfere - their doing so, would be detrimental both to its efficiency and its cheapness, and could not on any consideration be allowed;" saying that he will call on her when she comes back to town and adding that afternoons would be "...best for me if equally convenient to you, as I am now again shut up in Bleak House;" concluding "I wish you could have seen a piece called Masks and Faces, which they are now playing at the Haymarket. It is delightful, and worthy of the best days of the stage."
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