Item Info

Accession Number: 87-0171
Material: paper
Transcription:

        Wednesday Twenty Second July, 1868
Dear Mrs. Cattermole
       Of course I will sign your memorial to the Academy. If you take either of the Landseers, certainly take Edwin (1 St. John’s Wood Road, N.W.). But if you would be content with Frith, I had already spoken to him, and believe that I can answer for him.
        I shall be at All the Year Round office 26 Wellington Street, London, tomorrow from 11 to 3. Frith will be here on Saturday, and I shall be here too. I spoke to him a fortnight ago, and I found him most earnest in the cause. He said he felt absolutely sure that the whole profession in its best and highest representation would do anything for George. I sounded him, having the opportunity of meeting him at dinner at Cartwright’s.
       Ever Yours affecy.
                        CD

MssDate: Wednesday Twenty Second July 1868
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Edwin Landseer and William Powell Frith were painters, trained at the Royal Academy. 

Recipient: Cattermole, Clarissa, 1812-1892
Provenance: Hamilton, 9/1958, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 12, p. 157, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.] 

Country: Creation Place Note:Place Gad's Hill Place
Country:[England]
City/Town/Township:Higham by Rochester, Kent

Call Number: DL C296c 1868-07-22
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author