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Accession Number: 97-735
Physical Description: [3] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

           [which means, Limmerick]
                         Thursday Second September 1858.
My Dear Mr Finlay
          We are not deterred  from the achievement of our desperate purpose, by the additional cost. Therefore, if you will have the kindness to order the Cars, we will astonish the counties of Kent and Sussex.
          Cork was an immense success. We found upwards of a thousand Stalls let, for the three readings. A great many people were turned away too, on the last night. I did not think them, when I read the Carol, nearly as good an audience as Dublin or Belfast, in respect of demonstrative satistaction. But they were excellent as to Dombey and the Boots too. Perhaps, on the occasion of the first reading, the fault was in myself. For I was not in very good spirits that evening.
          There is not much to be done here, but it is a charming little Theatre for seeing and hearing (I read in the Theatre), and they were a highly sensitive, quick, and agreeable audience last night.
          Tomorrow morning we turn our faces towards London. I shall carry there with me (and keep there with me) the remembrance of your most friendly aid and the hope seeing you in my own house.

P.S. Mr. Arthur Smith sends his kindest regard, and says (mysteriously) " he will write, about the color of his crest".  
 

MssDate: Thursday Second September 1858.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Finlay, Francis Dalziel (1832-1917)
Bibliography:

Volume 8, pp. 645-646, 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 F496 1858-09-02
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author