Item Info

Accession Number: 2009-19
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

   Devonshire Terrace
                              Thursday January Nineteenth 
                                                                           1844.
My Dear Serle.
   My individual opinion is distinctly opposed to the settlement of Miss Angell's claim. No such thing was contemplated by the donors of the Money. And if we have run a risk in respect of Fifty Pounds, that is no reason, to me, for making it Seventy.
    The family seems to be of an odd kind, and especially liable to odd influences. I shall take an opinion about the possibility of any one among them who may have less of the Fund than another, putting me into chancery one of these fine days, before I formally accept my Trustee Ship.
    I don't value M'Ian's idea that nobody else would come forward if we paid Miss Angell - one peppercorn. He is a very good fellow, and I like him much. But if there be two commodities with which he especially unfurnished, I should say they were judgement and discretion.
    We must formally debate Miss A, and vote pro and con, when we meet. At Forsters let it be.
                                                                                   Yours up to his eyes in work
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MssDate: Thursday January Nineteenth 1844.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Serle, Thomas James, 1798-1889
Provenance: Bonham's / Holmes June 2009

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Four, 1844-1846, p. 25.

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

Call Number: DL Se67 1844-01-19
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author