Item Info

Accession Number: 87-422
Physical Description: [5] pages + envelope
Transcription:

  Tavistock House

      Twentieth December 1855
My Dear Locock.
       Coming to town from Paris (where we are passing the winter), I found your note and the enclosure. It is always so pleasant to me to have any sight of you, that your hand-writing is the next best thing I know. The letter of Mrs. Gamp is wonderfully ridiculous—but upon my soul I don’t know a Judge on the Bench who could sum up the facts about an illegitimate child, more concisely. “Gentlemen, frail nature, an unguarded moment, a fallen servant, and the elapse of nine months; — you will probably not deem it necessary to retire” —
  Verdict. Born by the visitation—&c.
   Very faithfully Yours
  CHARLES DICKENS

Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Includes two letters, the from "Jas. Shoesmith", recommending a nurse; the second from "Mary Ann Lynch", a woman about to go into the Lying-In Hospital, applying for "a few baby things". 

Call Number: DL L818c1 1855-12-20