BIB_ID
451144
Accession number
MA 23872
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Higham, England, 1865 January 18.
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2023.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery, with a mourning border.
The works requested informed Dickens's portrayal of Nicodemus Boffin in Our Mutual Friend, which he was writing at the time he composed this letter.
The works requested informed Dickens's portrayal of Nicodemus Boffin in Our Mutual Friend, which he was writing at the time he composed this letter.
Provenance
Mr J. Stevens Cox; purchased from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, catalog no. 17, November 2023.
Summary
Asking Holsworth (a member of the editorial staff of All the Year Round) to get him certain works about misers, particularly Merryweather's Lives of Misers; writing "I have present and particular occasion to refer to that book, or any other, or others, containing accounts of [Daniel] Dancer, [John] Elwes, and other Misers well known."
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