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Accession Number: 87-125
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                                                           48 Doughty Street
                                                                                  Friday Morning
My Dear Blanchard.
I inclose to Mrs. Blanchard an Invitation from my worser half to a gentle "flare" with which we are going to celebrate that stirring event,--a christening.  We are very homely and unceremonious people, and Mrs. Dickens labours under some apprehension that there should have been previous callings and interchanges of formality.  I have undertaken, however, to dispense with any such preliminaries, trusting that as we (i.e you and I) understand each other moderately well, Mrs. B and Mrs. D may arrive at a similar interchange of friendliness without first playing at company.
I went to see poor Chatfield, and am going again to-day.  Forster is going with me.  He seemed better; was in good spirits, and talked like a man who meant to come back to the World again.  I told him he looked much better that I had expected, but I looked at him a long time and narrowly too, before I could detect the faintest trace of his former self.
                                                                          Believe me always
                                                                                    Faithfully Yours
                                                                                            Charles Dickens

MssDate: Friday Morning [December 28, 1838]
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Blanchard, Laman, 1804-1845.
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/56.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume One, 1820-1839, p. 478.

Country: Creation Place Note:48 Doughty Street
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL B592 1838-12-28
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author