Item Info

Accession Number: 87-221
Physical Description: [2] pages + envelope
Material: paper
Transcription:

Tavistock House
                Sixth March 1852
My Dear Sir
                I have the greatest interest in those gallant men, and should have been delighted to dine in their company. I feel truly obliged to you for your kind remembrance on such an occasion.
                But I am engaged to Lord Lansdowne on Wednesday, and can only drink to them in the spirit – which I have often done when they have been farther off.
                I hope you will find occasion to put on your cocked hat, that they may see how terrific and imposing “a fore and after” can be made on shore.
                Faithfully Yours always
                Charles Dickens
T. Crofton Croker Esquire

MssDate: Sixth March 1852
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854
Provenance: Purchased at Sotheby via Maggs, 1971. Benoliel Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 6, pp. 619-620, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

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

Call Number: DL C878 1852-03-06
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author