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Accession Number: 2009-2
Transcription: To SEBASTIAN SCHLESINGER,1 8 DECEMBER 1867 Westminster Hotel, NewYork. Sunday Eighth December, 1867 My Dear Mr. Schlesinger. Many thanks for the whiskey, and for all other tokens of your kind remembrance. If I had not delivered myself up, wholly and absolutely, in bondage to the Readings, I should have had the pleasure of seeing more of you before now. Sebastian Schlesinger Esqre Faithfully Yours alys CHARLES DICKENS
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Sebastian Benzon Schlesinger; agent of Naylor Vickers in Boston; later settled in London. Close friend from 1873 of Wilkie Collins and one of his executors: see further Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 52n. and William M. Clarke, The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins, 1988. Invited to and attended the dinner (29 Feb 68) celebrating the Great Walking Match (Pilgrim Letters 12, pp. 52, 95).

Call Number: DL Sch38 1867-12-99