Item Info

Accession Number: 85-1009
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

Sheffield Monday
                Twenty Ninth August 1852
My Dear Alfred
                On arriving here last night, I found your letter. I will do all that is possible for you, but you have no idea, when you write at this time of day, what our audiences are. You may form some conception when I tell you that in the last places at Manchester – one part of the house alone – eleven hundred people are booked. I will get you and Helen in, somehow and somewhere; but it will be very difficult, and not a single free admission is given. You will find me at the Free Trade Hall until 3. After that, at the Royal Hotel.
                I am sorry Helen will not see the Comedy, which, as a picture, is something quite unprecedented. We play it here tonight for the last time. But she will see more amusing pieces, though not so dazzling to the eye.
                Kate and Georgina are with me, & send their loves.
                Ever affectionately
                                CD.

MssDate: Monday Twenty Ninth August 1852
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Dickens, Alfred Lamert, 1822-1860
Provenance: Purchased from Paul C. Richards, 4/22/85. Benoliel Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 6, pp. 750-751, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Country:England
City/Town/Township:Sheffield

Call Number: DL D554a1 1852-08-29
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author