Item Info

Accession Number: 87-315
Physical Description: [3] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

                Monday Sixth September 1858
My Dear Gordon,
          I most heartily congratulate you on being once more at home; and I am touched and gratified by your so soon thinking of me under your own roof, and feeling assured of my cordial sympathy with you and interest in you, there and everywhere. 
         My life when I am reading, is of that arduous and hurried kind that I never stir out of Hotel quarters, or have the pleasure of visiting any friend while I am so engaged. Moreover, Arthur Smith is always with me, and I mean to bring Mamie and Katie to Edinburgh to shew them something of Scotland. But of course we shall meet, please God.
        To my knowledge, I have no acquaintance whatever with the gentleman about whom you enquire. Some indistinct idea floats about in my head that I have been asked the like question concerning him, by some one else. I cannot get it into any tangible shape. Perhaps I may have met him somewhere. I certainly don't know him. 
        I am only just now at home for eight and forty hours, direct from Ireland. My success has been something wonderful.
                                           With kind regard and remembrance.
                                                      Ever Faithfully.
                                                CHARLES DICKENS
                                              John T. Gordon Esquire  

                


 

MssDate: Monday Sixth September 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Gordon, John Thomson, 1813-1865
Provenance: Sawyer, 1964 Gratz Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 651, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:Gad's Hill Place
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Kent

Call Number: DL G656 1858-09-06
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author