Item Info

Accession Number: 87-262
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

Broadstairs.
                Twenty Sixth September 1850.
My Dear Frederick
                It gives me extraordinary pain to refuse you anything, but I cannot make up my mind to be security for the performance of so extensive a contract. I am uneasy in the lightest thought of bequeathing such an obligation to those of these nine children who may outlive me, if I bequeath anything. The Responsibility would be most oppressive to me, always impending over my head. I cannot undertake it.
                I have an invitation from Bulwer to you, to come down to Knebworth on the 26th of October, and act there on the 28th and 30th in his Hall. It is only an hour and a half from London. Your charges, of course, are my concern.
                Affectionately Ever
                                CD.

MssDate: Twenty Sixth September 1850
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/55.

Bibliography:

Volume 6, p. 180, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:Broadstairs
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Kent

Call Number: DL D556f 1850-09-26
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author