Item Info

Accession Number: 87-219
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

48 Doughty Street
    October 22^nd:1838
Dear Sir.
      I have to apologize to you most earnestly and sincerely for my apparent neglect of your note, and favor from Blanchard. But the most constant and unremitting labour during the whole month has alone occasioned my delay in writing to you, and I hope that under such cirum-stances you will forgive me.
     Your name I recollected immediately, coupled with two most pleasant productions. The Every Day Life in Hanover has been in the printer’s hands for some time and has been twice in the draft table of contents, whence it has been unfortunately displaced by more pressing  (and very inferior) matter.
     I am going to Wales on Monday for a fortnight, but when I return I shall be most happy to see you whenever it is convenient to you to call-and I hope by that time I have may have more definite and satisfactory intelligence to comm.-nicate to you of both your papers.
    I am  Dr. Sir
     Very truly yours
         Charles Dickens

Dudley Costello Esquire
      

MssDate: October 22nd 1838
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

"Pleasant productions" refer to "Nobility in Disguise" and "The Stage-Coachman Abroad" (Miscellany, Dec 37, II, 626 and Dec 38, IV, 601.) "LIfe in Hanover" did not appear until Jan and May 43 (Miscellany , XIII, 26 and 447.)

Recipient: Costello, Dudley, 1803-1865
Provenance: Sawyer via Sessler,1955, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 1, p. 442, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:48 Doughty Street
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL C824 1838-10-22
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author