BIB_ID
421369
Accession number
MA 1352.308
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 December 28.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 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 / Tuesday Evening / Twenty Eighth December 1852."
Written from "Tavistock House / Tuesday Evening / Twenty Eighth 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
Informing her that the instruments have been sent to her house; adding "I am extremely pleased that you think so well of the miniature. And in fact, I am altogether pleased and contented, having been to a dinner of poor people today (no business of yours, as you say to me) which has sent me home in a good humour with the world in general, and where I am only sorry you were not;" expressing his hope that "...Mrs. Brown is by this time better again."
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