Item Info

Accession Number: 87-941
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                                      Devonshire Terrace
                                                                  Saturday Seventeenth March
                                                                                         1849
My Dear Lemon
Thinking over the theatricals while dressing this morning, a question arises in my mind whether any objection connected with that Ass in Manchester, would not be best and most completely avoided by postponing the idea--say 'till Christmas time--an excellent Season for it, and when the Theatre will perhaps be more at our disposal.  For I confess that this weighs with me, and that the notion of a new difficult piece--a melodrama of all things--unrehearsed upon the stage, gives me fears of the ridiculous.  The Bridge, the door latch, the carrying off of the body, the dance, the last Scene, &c &c.
Think of this, till Monday.
                                                                                                    Ever Affectionately
                                                                                                                CD.

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

Removed from album, Spring 1989.
On mourning paper.
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. 509-510.

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

Call Number: DL L544m 1849-03-17
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author