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Accession Number: 87-251
Physical Description: [4] pages
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                                                                                            Broadstairs
                                                                                                         Sunday Twenty Sixth September 
                                                                                                                                             1841.
My Dear Fred.
Unless you have strong reason for changing your mind, write and tell Mr. Percy, when you hear from him, that I entertained strong doubts whether his case was one which called for such relief as I could afford; and that you cannot make any report to me which will alter that impression.  I think he's a damned rascal, but that you needn't tell him.
You have got your promotion on very handsome terms, and I am heartily rejoiced.--In the matter of Collinson, Beard told me of Easthope's intention when he was here.  Therefore I am not surprised.
Kate and I are going to America for five or six months (but I don't tell her how long)--and we sail on the Fourth of January.  We must, I grieve to say (for everyone advises me to do so) leave the darlings behind us, which will be a severe trial.
If I don't let the house,--and I don't think, at present, I shall try to do so,--I shall ask you to take up your residence there, and to board, and lodge, and keep the Cellar key 'till we return.  It will be a great comfort to us to know that you see them every day; and I hope you will dine there, for our peace and happiness, every Sunday, and have them down after dinner.  Of course you can always have whom you like, to dine with you.  This is our earnest desire, and I trust you will think of us, and be very careful of our dear children.
I announce my intention in the Clock, next Saturday Week.  Until then, it will be best not to talk of it.  All our arrangements are made, and we go to Boston by the British and North American Mail Packet, from Liverpool.
It makes me very down-hearted when I think of the parting.  But the conviction that it will be a great thing to do, and the knowledge that I do it for their advantage, brings me up again.
                                                                                                      Always Affectionately Yours
Frederick Dickens Esquire.                                                                   Charles Dickens
                                                                                                                                                      Over
Anne goes with us.--Will you get the inclosed cheque in one note, and let me have it, half by the next post, and half by the next after.

MssDate: Sunday Twenty Sixth September 1841
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
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Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/55.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Two, 1840-1841, p. 389-390.

Country: Country:England
City/Town/Township:Broadstairs, Kent

Call Number: DL D556f 1841-09-26
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author