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Accession Number: 87-731
Physical Description: [1] page
Transcription:

   Devonshire Terrace

     Saturday Seventeenth March

                      1849.

My Dear Stone.

    Sorry you were engaged yesterday. Many thanks for the enclosed, which I also received. It is written by Miss Jewsbury, who sent it to Forster, begging him to put it in the Examiner--which he don't mean to do. I am afraid our friend the Jew is an idiot.

     Ever affectionately

        CD.

MssDate: Saturday Seventeenth March 1849
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

 Mrs Carlyle recommended Miss Jewsbury to Forster as a translator of an article by Mazzini in 1843. Mrs Carlyle had also referred to Miss Jewsbury as "Geraldine Jew." (see bibliography, Pilgrim edition p. 510).

Recipient: Stone, Frank, 1800-1859
Provenance: Benoliel, Mrs. D. Jacques 12/6/54

Bibliography:

 The Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Five, 1847-1849.  Graham Storey and K. J. Fielding, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981, p.510.

Creation Year: 1849
Call Number: DL St71f 1849-03-17
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author