Item Info

Accession Number: 97-724
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

Tavistock House, Tavistock Square
                Third March 1852
My Dear Sir
                I have such a strong sense in all these cases, of the danger of making a bad and unhappy Poet out of a good and happy Something-else – and of the miseries and bitternesses so occasioned – that I would rather not praise the Poor Boy’s verse in your kind preface. I think it very good – “considering” – but I don’t know that the Public can be expected to consider anything in a published book, except the matter that they find in it.
                Nevertheless I beg to be allowed the privilege of becoming a Subscriber under my initial letters.
                My Dear Sir
                Faithfully Yours
                Charles Dickens
C. De la Pryme Esquire
&c           &c           &c

MssDate: Third March 1852
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: De La Pryme, Charles, 1815-1899
Provenance: Purchased through Silverman 7/7/93. Benoliel Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 7, pp. 905-906, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:Tavistock House, Tavistock Square
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL D374 1852-03-03
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author