Item Info

Accession Number: 87-620
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

Tavistock House
                Wednesday Twenty Third December
                                                                1857
My Dear Paxton.
                I have just come back (2 P.M.) from reading at Rochester, and I wish you had been there. It was a tremendous success, and quite a wonderful demonstration.
                With me at this door, by the best of coincidences, arrives your Hamper. A thousand thanks for it – not less for the Seasonable spirit of hearty friendship in which I know you send it to me, than for its own jolly sake.
                I am quite affected by the generosity of my friends at Coventry. But they shall not spoil me, if I can help it; and I will try to “go” as truly and staunchly as the Repeater itself.
                All here unite with me in all good wishes, seasonable and unseasonable, to you and all your house. And I am always, with great regard,
                My Dear Paxton
                                Faithfully Yours
                                Charles Dickens
Sir Joseph Paxton.
P.S. You say “4 Hares and 4 Pheasants”. But there are 8 of each, in the miraculous hamper!

MssDate: Wednesday Twenty Third December 1857
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865
Provenance: Purchased from Hamilton, 3/20/56. Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 496, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

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

Call Number: DL P289 1857-12-23
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author