Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0681
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

  Tavistock House
  Monday Twenty Sixth January
  1853
Dear Stanny.
  I am truly concerned to receive your mournful intelligence, for although I know that your poor son's death releases him from a hopeless state, most distressing to you to have contemplated and to him to have endured, I am sensible that it cannot but be, for the time, a shock to an affectionate heart like yours. I heartily empathize with you my dear friend in resigning him to the mercy of God and that blessed Saviour in whom we all trust humbly, according to our several ways.
  Ever affectionately Yours
   Charles Dickens
Clarkson Stanfield Esquire

MssDate: Wednesday Twenty Sixth January 1853
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Dickens refers to the death of Stanfield's oldest son from his first marriage, Clarkson William Stanfield (1819—1853).

Recipient: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867
Provenance: Skongaard sale, via Branners.

Bibliography:

Volume 7, p. 17, 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 St24 1853-01-26
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author