ALs to John Leech
Charles Dickens
Item Info
Physical Description: [3] pages + envelope
Material: paper
Transcription:
Monday Thirty First may 1858
Dear Leech,
In making the domestic change which we all here know (I believe, equally) to have become unavoidable, and to be for the good of all, and which is made without anger or ill will, I expect, of course, the misconstruction of the knaves and fools. I should be but a poor writer, if I did not know the penalty I owe to them, and for which I must take receipt.
But you have been my friend, and know my nature. And when you misrepresent me, however unconsciously - as when you tell Luard it is a point in the case, that Charley sides with his mother-you strike me in tender place and wound me deeply.
Between the children and me, there is absolute confidence and accord throughout. Charley's living with mother to take care of her, is my idea -not his. I beg you to read the copy of a note from him which I send you on the other side, and to do me justice.
He wrote it soon after he had seem me at the office one morning; where I had asked him if he thought he could decide to live with his mother. That is what he refers to, when he says, "What you told me this morning."
Faithfully Yours
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MssDate: Monday Thirty First May 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
Text includes transcription of letter to Dickens from his son Charles.
Recipient: Leech, John, 1817-1864
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/54.
Bibliography:
Volume 8, pp. 574-575, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited b Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.].
Country: Creation Place Note:Tavistock House, Tavistock Square
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London
Call Number: DL L516j 1858-05-31
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author
ALs to John Leech
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