Item Info

Accession Number: 87-371
Physical Description: [2] pages + envelope
Transcription:

Friday Twenty Eight May, 1858.

My Dear Mrs Hogge,
                 After the profoundest cogitation, I come reluctantly to the conclusion that I do not know that Orphan. If you were the lady in want of him, I should certainly offer myself. But as you are not, I will not hear of the situtation.
                It is wonderful to think how many charming little people there must be, to whom this proposal would be like a revelation from heaven. Why don't I know one,and come to Kensington, boy in hand, as if I had walked (I wish to God I had) out of a Fairly Tale! But no. I do not know that Orphan. He is crying somewhere, by himself, at this moment-I can't dry his eyes. He is being neglected by some Ogress of a nurse-I can't rescue him.
                                                                                                  Ever Faithfully Yours
                                                                                                                    Charles Dickens

MssDate: Friday Twenty Eighth May, 1858.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Orphan is unexplained but may be connected with CD's Life Governship of the Orphan Working School.

Recipient: Hogge, Mary Harness
Provenance: Hamilton, 12/1955, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 569, 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 H679 1858-05-28
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author