Item Info

Accession Number: 87-633
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                               Devonshire Terrace
                                                               Monday Twenty Second January
                                                                       1844

My Dear Mrs. Procter
    Your kind note coming in, met, or might have met, a man in spectacles going out. And to the man in spectacles, the unhappy writer hereof has said "Dine with me on Sunday next at 6." - to which the man in spectacles said he would bring his sister. For which, may my curse - a father's curse -!
    At this crisis the five children are borne in. They twine themselves about my legs; the nurse seizes my outstretched arm; I relax - look upon my offspring - become penitent - burst into tear. At the same moment the man with the spectacles, happening to come back for his gloves (which he left behind him) looks in at the cottage window. He raises his arm and eyes, as invoking a blessing upon the family. I am heard to sob "My Love to Procter", and the Curtain comes down very slowly.
                                                                                                      Faithfully Yours always
                                                                                                                   Charles Dickens
Mrs. Procter. 

MssDate: Monday Twenty Second January I 1844.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Procter, Anne, 1799-1888
Provenance: Benoliel, Mrs. D. Jacques 11/57

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Four, 1844-1846, p. 27.

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

Call Number: DL P942 1844-01-22
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author