Item Info

Accession Number: 87-292
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Furnivals Inn

Saturday Evening

My Dear Sir.

I am, I very much regret to say, prevented from seeing you to-day, by one of the worst and most annoying colds that even in this season, can well attack one. It depresses me so much, and I have the prospect of so many days labour before me, that I am afraid of increasing it, and compelled though sorely against my inclination, to remain at home.

I assure you most unaffectedly that I am exceedingly sorry to be deprived of the pleasure I anticipated from your very kind invitation. I have only one consolation--it is, the hope that you will give me another opportunity of enjoying your society and hospitality on some future occasion.

Believe me

Faithfully Yours

Charles Dickens

--Fitzgerald Esqre.

MssDate: Saturday Evening [?January 1837]
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

In reference to CD's hope for another opportunity to visit, Pilgrim (vol. 1, p. 233n) mentions the Miscellany, Feb 37, I, 155-65.

Recipient: Fitzgerald, Edward Marlborough, b. 1802
Provenance: Hamilton 3/20/56

Bibliography:

 The Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume One, 1820-1839. Madeline House and Graham Storey, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965, p. 233.

Country: Creation Place Note:Furnival's Inn
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Holborn, London

Creation Year: 1837
Call Number: DL F576e 1837-01-00
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author