Item Info

Accession Number: 99-361
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

 Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester
  Twenty Seventh July, 1857

Dear Mr Hollingshead.
 
  I beg to assure you that I have been sensibly touched by your earnest and affectionate words, and that I thank you out of my heart. I will not say that I think the thing too low and too degrading to literature to be honored with such notice. This was certainly my first impression when I began to read your Proof, but as I proceed I felt that I need not spoil such tenderness of appreciation as yours, or wish for any reason to lose the utterance of it.

                                                         Very faithfully yours
                                                                   Charles Dickens
John Hollingshead Esquire.

MssDate: Twenty Seventh July, 1857
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

The "proof" refers to Hollingswood article in the "Train"  in the article titled "Dialogues of the Living" No IV. Mr Dickens and his Critics (August 57, IV, 76)  in which he described the recent attacks on Little Dorrit as being politically motivated. 

Recipient: Hollingshead, John
Provenance: Holmes, 10/1999, Benoliel Fund

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 389, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.]

Call Number: DL H725j 1857-07-27
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author