BIB_ID
421399
Accession number
MA 1352.604
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1843 September 8.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.3 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 "Broadstairs, Kent / Eighth September 1843."
Identity of the recipient from publisher letter cited below.
Written from "Broadstairs, Kent / Eighth September 1843."
Identity of the recipient from publisher letter cited below.
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
Agreeing with his suggestion on a Stock Exchange Subscription and commenting on Dr. Kaye's [James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth] name; concluding "I begin to be afraid from the tone of your letters that you are going to set up an opposition to Chuzzlewit. If your mind is made up, you won't believe anything I may say to dissuade you. But I assure you it's a poor trade - nothing like banking."
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