Item Info

Accession Number: 87-270
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

Broadstairs
  Nineteenth September 1848

My Dear Fred
  With however dry a pertinacity I strive to hold the mere letter of your note, avoiding all those troubles inseparable from its spirit which are at issue between us, I cannot understand it, sufficiently to decide on my reply.
  Do you owe £200 now, and contemplate paying that sum of debt, supposing you could get the money (of the hopefulness of which I design to say nothing here) how do you propose to establish a home? By getting into new debt? Or by what means?
  If you put it to me to answer your letter without having an answer to these enquiries, I will do so.  But I must answer it, then, on my own idea of the case, and that may be a wrong one, or an incomplete one.
      Affectionately always
       CD. 

MssDate: Nineteenth September 1848
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

 Page 3 and 4 includes shorthand by Frederick Dickens. 

Recipient: Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868
Provenance: Maggs, 1961, Gratz Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 5, p. 409-410, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.] 

Country: Creation Place Note:Broadstairs
Country:England
City/Town/Township:[Kent]

Call Number: DL D556f 1848-09-19
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author