Item Info

Accession Number: 86-2783
Physical Description: [2] pages, envelope
Transcription:

                                                              Tavistock House, London
                                                                               Sixteenth February 1857
My Dear Cerjat.
    A hasty line after my day’s work. You are quite right. Always knowing the man in my own mind by his real name of Rigaud, I made the mistake. I observed it very soon, but not soon enough to correct it in the first large issue for the month, though it was immediately set right in the stereotype plates. Also, a notice has been printed for issue with the next No. explaining the error.
    Ah! I wish you had not seen the Play! Though I say it as shouldn’t, I am pretty sure nothing so complete was ever seen before, or will ever be seen again.
    I hear very frequently from Townshend. He is pretty well, but evidently lonely ou there – and no wonder.
                                                              Kindest loves from all mine to all yours.
                                                                                     Ever Heartily Yours
                                                                                                      My Dear Cerjat,
                                                                                           Charles Dickens
 

MssDate: Sixteenth February 1857
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Cerjat, William Woodley Frederick de, d. 1869
Provenance: Sotheby Sale 5 June 77 Lot 327 thru Maggs, Gratz

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Eight, 1856-1858, p. 284.

Country: Creation Place Note:Tavistock House
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL C335 1857-02-16
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author