BIB_ID
196178
Accession number
MA 14028.1
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1865 September 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.2 x 12.5 cm
Notes
The second page severely cropped and the author's signature torn away.
Written on letterhead stationery reading "Office of All the Year Round."
Written on letterhead stationery reading "Office of All the Year Round."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking Fitzgerald for his gift of a dog named Sultan ("I cannot thank you too much for Sultan. He is a noble fellow, has fallen into the ways of the family with a grace and dignity that denote the gentleman, and came down to the railway a day or two since to welcome me home (it was our first meeting), with a profound absence of interest in my individual opinion of him which captivated me completely"), expressing his pleasure at hearing that the recipient is "getting on" with a story, and complaining of the heat in the Provinces; expressing his hope that Fitzgerald will choose to stay at Gad's Hill in the future, with a facetious reference to their mutual acquaintance, the poet Alfred Austin, who resided in South Mims ("I hope you have not forgotten the Mimmery at South Mims, and that when you next find yourself as near it as London, you will come to Gad's Hill instead.").
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