Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0975
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

      Tavistock House
                Tenth May 1854
   Dear Mark

                   Tomorrow, I would propose. We can arrange plans in the morning, if you will come around about 10. Or I am free this evening, and going for a saunter, and would meet you anywhere at a reasonable hour. In which case, send me word up here before ½ p 7.
                                               affecy Ever
                                                          CD

 

 

MssDate: Tenth May 1854
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

The letter refers to a visit to Watt's Charity, Rochester_CD's setting for the "The Seven Poor Travellers", the Extra Christmas No. of Household Words for 1854. Dickens and and Lemon signed the Vistor's Book on 11 May. He also described it in "one Man in a Dockyard" (with Horne), Household Words 6 Sept 51. An illustration of the house exists in The Uncollected Writings of CD, ed. Harry Stone, 11, 525. 

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

Bibliography:

Volume 7, p. 328, 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 1854-05-10
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author