Item Info

Accession Number: 66-529
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

Hen and Chickens,  Birmingham
          Monday Night, Eighteenth October 1858.
Dearest Georgy
          Only a line to say we arrived here prosperously, and that I found the letters waiting me, and that I will write to dear Mamie next.
          We had not a great house tonight -between seventy and eighty pounds- but I never saw people more honestly and completely delighted, and it was (and is) as wet a night as wet can be.
          Best love to Mamie and Katie,  and dear old Plorn. -Arthur joins. also engages himself for Katie's birthday.
                         Ever Affectionately
                                  CD.

MssDate: Monday Night, Eighteenth October 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Aris's Birmingham Gazette reported on 25 October that  bad weather contributed to poor attendance. Dickens read the Poor Traveller, Boots and Mrs Gamp on the 18th and 20th; Little Dombey and The Trial Scene from Pickwick on the 19th.

Recipient: Hogarth, Georgina, 1827-1917
Provenance: Black,1966, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 680, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:Hen and Chickens [hotel]
Country:London
City/Town/Township:Birmingham

Call Number: DL H678g2 1858-10-18
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author