Item Info

Accession Number: 87-416
Physical Description: [2] pages + envelope
Transcription:

Devonshire Terrace
    Monday Twenty Third October
                         1848
My Dear Leech,
There is rather a good Britannia Saloon Bill, out, announcing a gentleman with a wooden leg to dance the Highland Fling.  There is a portrait of him in the bill, with his wooden leg highly ornamented with rosettes.
It appears to me that this demands our attention.  Egg says he would like to go with us, and that if you will send him round a note, proposing an evening and a time for calling on him, he will, with yearnings, respond.  Therefore if you'll send me one line, mentioning what evening this week you'll both call here--say at 7--I will be (as you know I always am) to the fore at the appointed time.
                                                                               Ever Faithfully
                                                                                                   CD.

MssDate: Monday Twenty Third October 1848
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

On mourning stationary.
Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Leech, John, 1817-1864
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Five, 1847-1849, p. 429.

Country: Creation Place Note:Devonshire Terrace
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL L516j 1848-10-23
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author