Item Info

Accession Number: 87-116
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

I want you to write very strong, and as large as you can: so that the light may catch it. – which done, believe me to remain
                Always Very faithfully Yours
                Charles Dickens
Thursday
June Seventeenth, 1858.
                __________________________
[Drawing of a man with a hat.]                      Je vous avoue que je suis faché de tout cela, mon cher.

                                                    [Translation: I confess to you that I am upset with all of this, my dear.]

MssDate: Thursday, June Seventeenth, 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Written at the top of the letter in pencil, presumably by Mr. Watkins, is "Written for me when posing."

Recipient: Watkins, Herbert, b. 1828
Provenance: Purchased from Sessler, 1968. Friends of the Free Library funds.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 607, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Call Number: DL W324 1858-06-17
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author