Item Info

Accession Number: 87-569
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Lord Warden, Dover

Sunday Twenty Sixth May, 1861.

My Dear Lady Olliffe

I have run away to this Sea Beach to get rid of my Neuralgic face, and did not receive your note concerning Saturday, until yesterday morning, when it was too late to answer it.

Touching the kind invitations received from you this morning, I feel that the only course I can take—without being a Humbug—is to decline them. After the middle of June, I shall be mostly at Gad’s Hill—I know that I cannot do better than keep out of the way of hot rooms and late dinners—and what would you think of me, or call me, if I were to accept and not come!

No, no, no. Be still my soul. Be virtuous, eminent author. Do not accept, my Dickens. She is to come to Gad’s Hill with her spouse. Await her there my child. (Thus the voice of Wisdom.)

My Dear Lady Olliffe

Ever affectionately Yours

Charles Dickens

MssDate: Sunday Twenty Sixth May 1861
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Olliffe, Laura Cubitt
Provenance: Benoliel, Mrs. D. Jacques 11/57

Bibliography:

 The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Nine, 1859-1861. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 421.

Country: Creation Place Note:Lord Warden
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Dover

Creation Year: 1861
Call Number: DL OL4L 1861-05-26
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author