Item Info

Accession Number: 87-865
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Tavistock House
            Tuesday Morning Nineteenth June
                                           1855
Dear Mrs. Trollope
                           I was out of town on Sunday, or I should have answered your note immediately on its arrival.  I cannot have the pleasure of seeing the famous "Medium" tonight, for I have some Theatricals at home.  But I fear I should not in any case be a good subject for the purpose, as I altogether want faith in the thing.  I have not the least belief in the awful unseen World being available for evening parties at so much per night.  And although I should be ready to receive enlightenment from any source, I must say that I have very little hope of it from the Spirits who express themselves through Mediums, as I have never yet observed them to talk anything but Nonsense - of which (as Carlyle would say), there is probably enough in these days of ours, and in all days, among mere mortality.
                                        Very faithfully Yours
                                            Charles Dickens

MssDate: Tuesday Morning Nineteenth June 1855
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Record entered by KS 9/29/11.

Recipient: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863
Provenance: Sawyer 1960, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Seven, 1853-1855, pp. 651-652.

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

Call Number: DL T749f 1855-06-19
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author