Item Info

Accession Number: 87-1455
Physical Description: [1] page + envelope
Material: paper
Transcription:

  Tavistock House
  Seventeenth March 1854
My Dear Clement. He had bought his own tomb sometime before. He had a particular fondness for the spot, which is in the Norwood Cemetery. I was to have appointed a day to walk with him and see it, but thought – God help us all! – that there was time enough.
  You know what an extraordinary house it is – not less so under these circumstances than under any other – but more so. I only know accidentally, that he is to be buried on Monday. The hour has not come to my knowledge, but if you decide to make the journey here, I can of course ascertain it.
  If you come, pray stay with us. Send me a telegraph message, mentioning, in that case, by what Train you come. You will find us quite alone.
  Very faithfully Yours Ever
  CD.
W. J. Clement Esquire

MssDate: Seventeenth March 1854
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Written on the recto of the integral address leaf of a printing of Dickens's tribute to Talfourd, published in Household words 25 March 1854. On mourning stationery. Bound as a volume. RBD D 8 H842 1854 off E11:5

Recipient: Clement, William James, 1804-1870
Provenance: Gift of William M. Elkins, 1947.

Bibliography:

Volume 7, pp. 292-293, 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 C591 1854-03-17
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author