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Accession Number: 87-232
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
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1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park.
                                Twenty First August 1845.
My Dear Sir. I have had very great pleasure in the receipt of your letter. I am a bad correspondent: writing more letters, of necessity, in a week, than all the clerks in the Home Secretary’s office. But I am happy to have the opportunity of acknowledging a note from you, and assuring you of the gratification I shall have in hearing from, or seeing you, at all times.
                I envy you, your Spanish Trip. I envy you, your having seen Irving, for whom I have a very high regard and admiration. He is coming home, I hear; having been recalled by the New President, who is what they call in America “a blue-nosed Presbyterian”.  I have hopes that he will take London in his way; and that I shall shake hands with him, once more.
                We left Genoa on the Ninth of June, and went, by way of Milan to Como. I wished to make the passage of the St. Gothard: having crossed the Simplon in the Winter. It was open, and quite easy. The descent on the Swiss side, after Andermatt, I thought the most wonderful and glorious thing imaginable. But the whole of Switzerland delighted me beyond expression. We came to Frankfort, and so down the Rhine to Cologne, and thence to Brussels. Being joined by some friends from England at that place (who had come across to welcome us home) we went to Bruges and Ghent at our leisure; and embarking at Ostend, got home within the month after our departure from the Peschiere. I regret that Palace and that City very much; and am full of hopes and plans for seeing Italy again, one day.
                London is as flat as it can be. There is nothing to talk about, but Railroad shares. And as I am not a Capitalist, I don’t find anything very interesting in that. The Gin Punch shall be yours in the snowy time (I hope) of Christmas; and it shall be preceded by a glass of rather better wine than one can get in the City of Palaces.
                I am hot in the preparation of some Private Theatricals just now, which are to come off on the Twentieth of next month. Mrs. Dickens and her sister send you their best regards. And I am ever Very faithfully Yours
                                                                Charles Dickens

MssDate: Twenty First August 1845
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Cunynghame, Arthur Augustus Thurlow, Sir, 1812-1884
Provenance: Purchased through Sawyer, 1964, Gratz Fund.

Bibliography:

 Volume 4, pp. 360-361, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL C919 1845-08-21
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author