Item Info

Accession Number: 87-864
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                                                                                                                  Carlton House Feby 21st
Sir.
    I am obliged to you for your letter. I regret to say that the whole of my time is so incessantly engaged,and the period of my departure is so near at hand,that I cannot see you now. But when I return here I shall be very glad to give you the opportunity you seek.
                                                                                                            Faithfully Yours
                                                                                                                    Charles Dickens
Mr Henry Trimmer.

 

 

MssDate: Feby [21 1842]
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Close and signature by Dickens, but body of letter in the hand of G.W. Putnam, secretary to Dickens on his American trip; cf. Pilgrim ed. (Addenda, v. 7).

Recipient: Trimmer, Henry
Provenance: Price, V. Ruth, via T. Adams (JCB) 1962, Matlack

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Seven, 1853-1855, p. 840.

Country: Creation Place Note:Carlton House
Country:United States of America
City/Town/Township:New York City/New York

Call Number: DL T736h 1842-02-20
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author