Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0123
Material: paper
Transcription:

        Tavistock House, London
                 Sixth March 1854

Dear Sir
         Allow me, acknowledging the receipt of your very obliging letter, to assure you that I am truly sensible of the worth of the confidence and esteem which are implied in its proposal.
         I regret however, that I cannot consent to be put in nomination for the honorable post to which your communication refers. I never seek any distinction; nor can I, on any private intimidation, consider the possibility of accepting this one.
                                                Faithfully Yours
Charles H Blackwood Esquire.                                                              Charles Dickens

 

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

Charles Blackwood and the "honorable post" to which Dickens refers is unidentified. 

Recipient: Blackwood, Charles, H.
Provenance: Christie's Sale, lot 470, Matlack fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 7, p. 284, 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 B568c 1854-03-06
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author