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Accession Number: 84-1363
Physical Description: [4] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

                                                       15 Fitzroy Street | Sunday December 9th.
Sir,
    In answer to your note of yesterday's date I have only to say that I shall be happy to avail myself of your assistance when the Session commences; and as soon as the arrangements at The Mirror of Parliament are completed I will write to you.
    I regret for your own sake that I have not known your address until I found (on returning home yesterday Evening) your note  I wrote you a few lines some time since in reply to your former note (several engagements I have formed preventing my doing so at the moment) and about a week afterwards the letter was returned to me by the Post Office with an Intimation that you had left the residence to which I directed it.  Had I even received your yesterday's note one day sooner I could have procured you a couple of days employment at the Lambeth Election as a Poll Clerk at a Salary of one Guinea per day, having been commissioned by Mr. Tennyson to find no less than Eighteen young men for that purpose.  I regret to say however that the number was completed yesterday morning.  I could also have given you some employment on my own account about a week ago but not knowing where to find you I was under the necessity of employing a Stranger.  Of course this is no fault of yours, and I only mention the circumstance for the purpose of illustrating my assurance tha I shall always be most willing to put anything in your way when I have the opportunity of doing so.
    Should I stand in need of your services previous to the assembling of Parliament, for a day or two I will write to you, but at all events you will hear from me when Parliament meets which will be I think on the 29th.of January.
                                                           I am Sir
                                                                   Yours &c
Mr. H. G. Hartland                                                                           Charles Dickens

MssDate: 9 December
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Hartland, H. G.
Provenance: David Holmes, 7/30/1984, Benoliel Fund. MS Comtesse de Suzannet.

Bibliography:

Volume 1 p. 10-11, The Letters of Charles Dickens,  edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton ... [et al.]. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1965.

Country: Creation Place Note:Fitzroy Street
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL H255 1832-12-09
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author