Item Info

Accession Number: 87-370
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

       Wednesday Fourteenth April, 1858
My Dear Mrs Hogge,
                       My enforced disposals of myself have been so numerous and so uncertain since I had the happiness of seeing you, that I have been afraid to write to you. I did  "mean it", and have often thought of it; and it is you who commit the direst  cruelty in doubting (as I clearly see you do) the faithful and devoted wretch who pens these lines.
                       Mrs Dickens very rarely dines out, and I had best not include her in my answer to your heart-breaking note. I myself am as free as I ever can be (being your slave) for Monday or Wednesday in next weeks, or for any day in the following week, except Thursday the 29th.
                       I grieve to hear that you have been ill, but I hope that the Spring-when it comes-will find you blooming with the rest of the flowers.
                                                                                                 Very Faithfully Yours
                                                                                               CHARLES DICKENS      
 Mrs Hogge.                              
                                                                          

MssDate: Wednesday Fourteenth April, 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Mrs Hogge may refer to Mary (or Polly) Hogge, daughter of Capt. Richard Harness, RN.

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

Bibliography:

Volume 8, pp. 545-546, 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 1858-04-14
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author