Item Info

Accession Number: 87-233
Physical Description: [3] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

                Albaro.
                                Ninth August 1844.
My Dear Sir
                As I find none of my unfortunate books in the chest which you so kindly forwarded to me yesterday, I write to enquire whether there is anything for me to do in the matter – any application for me to prefer – any promise and vow for me to make – any pledge that I have no intention of reading them aloud to the Friars in the Streets, whether they will or no – or of converting the Genevese, from the true faith, to the Arabian Nights.
                And my stationery – my inkstand – the tools of my trade – I won’t write against the Cathedral, or the King, or the Governor, or the Town Gates even; I swear – if I get ‘em. But Woe to the Custom House, and the Jesuits who examine the books, if I don’t.
                Mrs. Dickens says she will take it as a great favor, if you will buy her, at your leisure and in the course of your own marketings, three pounds of black tea, and a Ham. If blushes could be forwarded in a note, this paper would be red with a consciousness of the trouble it gives you, by the time it comes to hand.
                Always My Dear Sir
                                Faithfully Yours
                                                Charles Dickens
Thomas Curry Esquire

MssDate: Ninth August 1844
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Curry, Thomas C.
Provenance: Purchased through Richards, 1966, Benoliel Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 4, pp. 171-172, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Albaro

Call Number: DL C937 1844-08-09
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author