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Accession Number: 87-667
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

At the Parisian Phenomenon (Rue de Courcelles)
Thursday Night, Seventh January
1847

My Dear Sheridan. I am heartily sorry for the occasion of your postponement, though glad of the postponement itself. I am slaughtering a young and innocent victim--and it takes a deal of time.

So much, indeed, that I must postpone now, until a week or more is past, and No. 5 is on its way to the shores of Albion--if you ever heard of that uncommon locality. Meantime Charley considers us (I see it plainly) a pair of humbugs, and broods darkly over his wrongs.

I think of demanding my passport, in consequence of the immense extent to which the French nation makes a water-closet of my wall. If the British Lion were bred for THIS he had better have been born a jackall or hyaena, and then he might at least have got an honest livelihood out of it.

Charles Sheridan Esquire.                                                                                          Ever Yours

                                                                                                                                         Charles Dickens

 

MssDate: Thursday Night, Seventh January 1847
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Sheridan, Charles, Kinnaird, 1817?-1847
Provenance: Maggs 1972

Bibliography:

 The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Five: 1847-1849, ed. Graham Storey and K. J. Fielding. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981,  p. 3.

Country: Creation Place Note:Rue de Courcelles
Country:France
City/Town/Township:Paris

Creation Year: 1847
Call Number: DL Sh53 1847-01-07
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author