Item Info

Accession Number: 87-899
Physical Description: [2] pages + envelope
Material: paper
Transcription:

       Wednesday Thirtieth June 1858.
My Dear Young friend
           I am quite ashamed to find that your letter was written to me so long ago as on the eighteenth of this month. For I am (as you have been truly told) very fond of children, and I should be pained by your supposing that I could not neglect you.
           The truth is, I have been very busy. Otherwise I should have sent you this present autograph, on the very next day after I received your letter. "Better late than Never", however, and here it is.
           I don't write as plainly as you do. But printers can read anything, and they have made me lazy about the shapes of my letters, and the clearness of my loops, and the roundness of my O's (there's a round one though), and all that. But I am not lazy in anything else, so I hope to retain your good opinion on the whole.
                                                                                                     Affectionately Yours
                                                                                                               Charles Dickens
Perhaps you'll wonder why I make that flourish. I don't know. I have not the least idea.
Master Francis G Waugh
                                                                                                              

MssDate: Wednesday Thirtieth June 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Waugh, Francis G.
Provenance: Sessler,1959, Gratz Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 593, 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 W357f 1858-06-30
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author