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Accession Number: 87-0968
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

          Tavistock House
                Christmas Eve 1853.
 My Dear Mark
                   a merry christmas and a happy New Year to you and yours.
                   Will you give me a call on monday morning to arrange with me (for Ireland, whom I dare say you will be kind enough to see when I am at Birmingham) about the little Theatre?  We had a rehearsal to day —I have got in some capital old Stager dodges and scraps of music—and I think it will be very pretty and droll. Really very good.
                   Betty, my dear Sir, is—I say it emphatically—an Actress!!! 
                                      Ever affectionately
                                               CD.
   

MssDate: Christmas Eve 1853.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

"Little Theatre" refers to schoolroom at Tavistock House. On Twelfth Night 1852 the Dickens and Lemon children had performed Albert Smith's burlesque, Guy Fawkes, and on Twelfth Night 1853, Robert Brough's William Tell. 
"Rehearsal" refers to  Fielding's Tom Thumb, performed by the children on 6 Jan 54.
Betty, Mark Lemon's daughter was nine years old at the time. 

Recipient: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.

Bibliography:

Volume 7, pp. 231—232, 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 L544m 1853-12-24
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author