Item Info

Accession Number: 80-1448
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

Private
  Gad’s Hill Place,
  Higham by Rochester, Kent.
  Tuesday Thirteenth March 1866
Dear Madam
  I of course receive your interesting letter in confidence.
  My condemnation cannot in strict reason, I think, be considered so indiscriminate as you would make it, for I purposely used the word “many”, in referring to bad sick wards in work houses, so that there should remain an outer margin for the good. The Vestry of the Parish of Saint Swiffins describe themselves through their own words and acts, and the responsibility of that description is their own.
  For some months to come, I shall have so many engagements out of London, that I cannot at present contemplate a visit to your charge. But I am very glad to have the assurance I derive from your communication, that you administer it in the best spirit.
  Faithfully Yours
  Charles Dickens
Mrs. Morrison
 

MssDate: Tuesday Thirteenth March 1866
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Retained copy of ALs from Cornelia Morrison to Dickens, March 6th 1866, laid in; described separately (same call number; cdc420301, cdc420302, cdc420303).

Recipient: Morrison, Cornelia
Provenance: Richards July 1980, Gratz Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 11, p. 173, 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:Higham by Rochester, Kent

Call Number: DL M831 1866-03-13
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author