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Accession Number: 87-560
Physical Description: [2] pages
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                                                                                              Broadstairs, Kent I Twenty Ninth August 1843
Dear Sir
    As I do not know the address of Bishop Gillies; and as the kind offer of that reverend Gentleman in reference to the disposal of one of poor Elton's children, was made through you; I shall feel much obliged to you if you will convey to him the purport of this communication.
    The smaller committee to whom the immediate consideration of the family's necessities has been entrusted, have given their best and most grateful attention to the offer of Bishop Gillies. But they have come to the conclusion that as it would involve the necessity of one child being educated in the Roman Catholic persuassion, it is best for them to decline it.
    In arriving at this opinion, they have not allowed themselves to be influenced by any religious opinions or scuples of their own: but have confined themselves to three points of consideration - firstly, how their father would have viewed such a proposal had he been happily alive - secondly, how the elder children regard it among themselves - and thirdly how far they would be justified in introducing differences of faith and separations of opinion among persons too young to judge on such difficult matters, for themselves. The relsult is, what I have already stated.
    They beg, at the same time, to return the Bishop their warm and cordial acknowledgements; and to assure him of their high esteem.
                                                                                             My Dear Sir I Faithfully Yours
                                                                                                                    Charles Dickens
W. H. Murray Esquire
 

MssDate: Twenty Ninth August 1843
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Murray, W. H., 1790-1852
Provenance: Hamilton 12/55, Matlock Fund

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Three, 1842-1843, p. 546.

Country: Creation Place Note:Broadstairs
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Kent

Call Number: DL M967 1843-08-29
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author