BIB_ID
421565
Accession number
MA 1352.649
Creator
Jeakes, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
London, England, 1855 March 3.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.3 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Jeakes was an engineer who designed a closet for drying clothes to assist with Florence Nightingale's sanitation efforts at the military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, where sick and wounded soldiers from the Crimean War were being treated.
Dickens sent this letter with one of his own to Angela Burdett-Coutts dated March 5, 1855 (cataloged as MA 1352.405). See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
On stationery with the letterhead "51, Great Russell Street."
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.
Dickens sent this letter with one of his own to Angela Burdett-Coutts dated March 5, 1855 (cataloged as MA 1352.405). See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
On stationery with the letterhead "51, Great Russell Street."
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.
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
Saying that it has occurred to him that it would be useful to send along a "small centrifugal machine, for taking the water out of the Linen, before it is placed in the drying Closet; adding that machines like this are used "at all the washing Establishments & are very simple & not liable to get out of order."
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