Item Info

Accession Number: 87-732
Physical Description: [1] page
Transcription:

My Dear Stone

    Hogarth's reply is, that the proposed title Adagio con moto would be "quite ridiculous and preposterous, and would involve a most extravagant musical mistake", but that Andante con moto would be perfectly correct.

                    Affy. Ever

                         CD

Monday Seventh April 1849.

MssDate: Monday Seventh [i.e. 9th] April 1849
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

 According to Pilgrim editors, this letter was misdated by Dickens: Monday was the 9th in 1849.

"Stone took Hogarth's advice and one of his two pictures exhibited at the RA that June was entitled The Duet 'andante con moto.'" (Pilgrim edition p. 521, see bibliography.)

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. 521.

Creation Year: 1849
Call Number: DL St71f 1849-04-09
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author