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Autograph letter : Broadstairs, to Henry Austin, 1841 Sept. 3.

Record ID: 
291106
Accession number: 
MA 113.13
Author: 
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes: 

Letter was incomplete. Written on a sheet folded to make four pages, it must have ended on p. 3 or 4; but only the first page, with the postscript on the back of it, has survived.
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his brother-in-law Henry Austin. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 113 for more information.--Cf. House, p. 375, n. 2.
Written from Broadstairs.

Summary: 

Mentioning that Dickens is "coming to town on Tuesday," and proposing that Henry and Letitia Austin travel back to Broadstairs with the him on Wednesday morning. With a postscript mentioning the "difficult" matter of Alfred.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts