Item Info

Accession Number: 87-1832
Physical Description: [2] pages, one copy page typed, one page of notes typed
Transcription:

                                               OFFICE OF HOUSEHOLD WORDS
Tuesday Thirteenth October 1857.

My Dear Buckstone.
    No. I do not believe that you have “made out of the matter a mere managerial bargain”’ and I do not believe that you have done any thing in it but oblige me very readily. For which accept my cordial thanks.
    I need hardly tell you that my interest in the young lady does not cease with the effecting of this arrangement, and that I shall always regard your taking care of her and remembering her, as an act of personal friendship to me. On the termination of her present engagement, I hope you will tell me, before you tell her, what you see for her, “looming in the future.”
    I enclose a cheque (which I have not crossed) for Fifty Pounds.
    As you are so far as Shooter’s Hill on the way to Gad’s Hill; I wish you would come from your hill to my hill, and have Sunday dinner. I would meet you at Dartford, and bring you on in a basket-carriage; and I would keep you (with your leave) all night, and send you anywhere in the morning.   
    Could it be done, - on Sunday Week for instance?
                                                                              Faithfully Yours always
                                                                                                  Charles Dickens
J. B. Buckstone Esquire.

MssDate: Tuesday Thirteenth October 1857.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879
Provenance: Swann Sale (#1447), lot #79 through David Holmes 1, Benoliel

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Eight, 1856-1858, p. 465.

Country: Creation Place Note:Office of Household Words
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL B857 1857-10-13
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author