Item Info

Accession Number: 87-122
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                                            Devonshire Terrace
                                                                       Monday May The Third 1841
My Dear Sir.
Many thanks to you for the Magazine, which is a great curiosity.  As you may suppose that I haven't read my second self "right through", you will not give me any credit for returning them within the specified time. 
Good God how hot these Oriental Magazines look!  You're so used to them, that I dare say you don't see it, but the pages are parched--burnt up--suggestive of drought and scorching heat.  Some Indian birds we have, began to sing directly the parcel was brought in.  I began to drink claret out of a tumbler before I had turned over the leaves of the Second Number.  And all last night, I dreamed about Vishnu, and Hindoo Temples, and Indian Jugglers sitting upon nothing, and Tigers coming unexpectedly to dinner parties and bounding away into remote Jungles with English Butlers--Elephants too were so common as to be quite ridiculous; and I ate rice by hundred weights.  
                                                                                                        Faithfully Yours
J. Blackburn Esquire                                                                                Charles DIckens
 

MssDate: Monday May The Third 1841
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Blackburn, John
Provenance: Dawson's 1961, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Two, 1840-1841, p. 277.

Country: Creation Place Note:Devonshire Terrace
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL B562 1841-05-03
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author