Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0971
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

    Tavistock House

        First March 1854
Dear Mark
    If I were not unfortunately engaged, I should have had the greatest pleasure in dining with Madame Celeste today. For you know what a high opinion I always have of her good sense and thorough knowledge of her art. But the short notice floors me—though I have half a mind to back out of my previous “bespeak”.
                                          Ever affecy.
                                                  CD.
                                                      Over
I think Webster mad in that speculation—just stark mad.

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

Webster had begun a new management of the Adelphi the previous April. Previously, he had lost an estimated £8,000 between 1846-8, managing the the Haymarket between 1837-53. 

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

Bibliography:

Volume 7, pp. 282-283, 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 1854-03-01
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author