Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 1851 Oct. 1.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 1851 Oct. 1.

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Discussing renovations to Tavistock House. Discussing servants' bells, the kitchen range, wirework, the bathroom, coals, bookcases, the staircase, and their proposed appointment for Sunday. Stating adamantly that the bath must be partitioned off from the W.C., as "the Bather would be happier and easier in mind, if the W.C. did not demonstrate itself obtrusively." Noting that Dickens has "not sufficient confidence in [his] strength of mind, to think that [he] could begin the business of every day, with the enforced contemplation of the outside of that box," and that he believes it "would affect [his] bowels" and must therefore ask Austin to "mask the W.C."

1 item (7 p.) ; 18 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Austin, Henry, 1809 or 1810-1861

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