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Accession Number: 87-0779
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

Tavistock House
   Twentyfifth april 1853.

Dear Stone
                Townshend is coming here this evening, and I am going to read him the next No.of Bleak House. If that vortex of dissipation in which you live, should have a gap in at 8 O'Clock, we shall be the gainers. And if your ladies would care to be of the small audience-ditto.
                                                                                                                 Ever affecy

MssDate: Twenty Fifth April 1853
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Bleak House No. XV (Chs 47-9), published 1 May.  The ladies to which Dickens refers are presumably his wife, Elizabeth, and elder daughter, Ellen, aged 17.

Recipient: Stone, Frank, 1800-1859
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.

Bibliography:

Volume 7, p. 69, 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 St71F 1853-04-25
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author