Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0644
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Hens and Chickens
Wednesday December 28
1853
My Dear Sir
We are extremely obliged to you for your kind invitation, and should have sincere pleasure in accepting it, if we had not already declined invitations from Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Mason, on the ground that with a view to tomorrow and Friday, I must keep myself quiet today.  I assure you that I do a great violence to my own inclinations in not coming to you; but I have a strong misgiving that if I were to "let myself go'. and be as genial as I feel disposed to be, my voice would not hold out for two consecutive nights in that very large place.
  My Dear Sir
 Very faithfully Yours always
Arthur Ryland Esquire  Charles Dickens

Mrs. Dickens, Miss Hogarth, and Mr. Wills desire their kind regards.

MssDate: Wednesday December Twenty Eighth 1853
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Ryland, Arthur, 1807-1877
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Seven, p 233.

Country: Creation Place Note:Hen and Chickens [Hotel, Birmingham]
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Birmingham

Call Number: DL R983 1853-12-28
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author