Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0970
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

 Tavistock  House
    Monday Twentieth February 1854

My dear Mark
 Will you note down and send me any slang terms among tumblers and circus-people, that you can call to mind?  I have noted down some—I want them in my new story—but it is very probable that you will recall several which I have not got.
   Ever affectionately
       CD
 

MssDate: Monday Twentieth February 1854
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Slang terms requested by Dickens were used in chapters 3 and 6 of Hard Times. 

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

Bibliography:

Volume 7, p. 279, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.].

Call Number: DL L544m 1854-02-20
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author