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Accession Number: 2009-5
Physical Description: [3] pages
Transcription:

      Devonshire Terrace
                                  Second January 1843.

My Dear Serle.
    If I can come to you before you separate tonight - I will. But an engagement which I could not anticipate, renders it exceedingly improbable.
    Will you therefore formally pass Mr. Perry's accounts, and discharge him of the same? If my signature should be necessary, I will attach it afterwards, of course. Perhaps Mr. if Perry signs an order to Coutts & Co. to the effect that the account is now to be transferred to the Three Trustees, subject to the drafts of any two of them, - and sends it to me for my signature and subsequent proceeding on - it will be the shortest course.
    The Lady with whom the Ali Baba Miss Elton resides, has sent me the enclosed note. I answered it by saying that the Committee met tonight, and I had no doubt would readily comply with her request. We may make the sum a part of Mr. Perry' accounts perhaps. I therefore enclose a blank checque, with my signature.
    I have received ten shillings additional, the amount of sundry Subscriptions, from Mr. John Reddish of the York and London Assurance Office. I have paid fifteen shillings for Three Insertions of the "Companion" advertisement in The Times. Whereby the Estate owes the Inimitable B. five shillings.
    The advertisement witll be inserted tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday. I have delayed it at Miss Elton's request, as the young lady was absent on a little recreation.
    Dr. Elliotson reports his patient, getting on famously.
    I don't know that I have anything else to say, except to send my remembrances and seasonable congratulations to our friends. Alway My Dear Serle Yours and Theirs
                                                                                  Charles Dickens

No room for the flourish. W must "suppose that" - as you say at Rehearsals.

MssDate: Second January 1843.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Serle, Thomas James, 1798-1889
Provenance: Butterfields / Holmes Feb . 2009

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Four, 1844-1846, p. 7.

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

Call Number: DL Se67 1844-01-02
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author