Item Info

Accession Number: 87-937
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                Devonshire Terrace
                     Twelfth June 1848.
My Dear Lemon.
I would have come to you at Whitefriars to day, but between the Scotch correspondence, the Birmingham (where Tuesday the 27th. will be the day) the Leamington (where, it strikes me, our friend Elliston is fooling us) and Shepherd's Bush, I am like an over-driven Bull.
Miss Montague and Ann Romer ^^{and her brother.}--Will you write and book them for the Birmingham night, with a possibility of Leamington on the previous Saturday or Monday?
And now we cannot drivel about Leech, but must either have him in, or leave him out.  The Birmingham bill is incomplete--the Scotch bills will have to be got ready directly--and it is utterly impossible to go on with the caste, or to put anything, or arrange anything, or begin anything, or finish anything, in a preposterous state of uncertainty which unhinges each play.  Will you cut this Gordian Knot?
                                                                                Affectionately Ever
                                                                                                       CD.

MssDate: Twelfth June 1848
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Removed from album, Spring 1989.
Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Five, 1847-1849, p. 333-334.

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

Call Number: DL L544m 1848-06-12
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author