Letter from Charles Dickens, London, to Mary Dickens, 1856 October 4 : autograph manuscript signed.

Sending a check for the Riding Bill and saying "The preparations for the Play are already beginning, and it is christened (this is a great dramatic secret, which I suppose you know already), The Frozen Deep. Tell Katey with my best love, that if she fail to come back six times as red, hungry, and strong, as she was when she went away, I shall give her part to somebody else. We shall all be very glad to see you both back again; when I saw 'we', I include the birds (who send their respectful duty), and the Plorn [his son Edward]. Kind regard to all at Brighton.