Item Info

Accession Number: 87-672
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                                                                             Devonshire Terrace I York Gate Regents Park
                                                                                                                                         Nineteenth July 1842
My Dear Sir,
    I am happy in the recipt of your kind note; and am very glad that we have become better acquainted through crying Stop Thief, together, in a crowd.
    I believe there are hopes of throttling the continental Brigands. I have no hope, whatever, of stopping American Piracy in this Generation. But we may just as well serve the next, and assert our wrongs; and I know it galls them, and they wince. - That should be a comfort to us. It is a very great one to me.
    I am very glad to read that passage in your letter, wherein you say that you have nearly run your literary career. For as all rich men complain of being poor, I trust I may discern in this, the promise of a great many more books from your Pen.
                                                                                 Believe me My Dear Sir
                                                                                            Very faithfully I Your friend
                                                                                                         Charles Dickens
Horace Smith Esquire

 

MssDate: Nineteenth July 1842.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Smith, Horace, 1779-1849
Provenance: Quaritch 1966, Benoliel Fund

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Three, 1842-1843, p. 275.

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

Call Number: DL Sm58 1842-07-19
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author