ALs to Mark Lemon
Charles Dickens
Item Info
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:
Tavistock House
Sunday Nineteenth October
1856
My Dear Mark
I doubt if there be anything in this book, to make a good little Poem of, unless it depended for its merit, mainly on its manner. It is a common tale of chivalry, with all the usual things in it. Some of the incidents asserted in the Preface to be discernible in Don Quixote, were really taken, I don’t doubt, from this Romance; but others were not—The only novelty I see in it, is the people falling foul of any questioner who ask them what in Heaven’s name they are howling about, when they fall into those periodical fits of grief. But this is so very poorly accounted for, that I don’t think it comes to anything.
Ever affectionately
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MssDate: Sunday Nineteenth October 1856
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
The poem is presumably meant as a contribution to Household Words; the book untraced.
Recipient: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870
Provenance: Gift of Mrs D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.
Bibliography:
Volume 8, p. 210, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.]
Call Number: DL L544m 1856-10-19
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author
ALs to Mark Lemon
ALs to Mark Lemon