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Dickens, Charles
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- Dickens, Charles
- Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to the Reverend Dr Hawtrey, headmaster of Eton
- Paper
Requesting permission to take his eldest son, Charley Dickens, then fourteen, and three school friends for "a little excursion up the river on Tuesday next", and detailing his plans to take the boys to Windsor Castle and to enjoy a "gipsy-dinner" on the water, 2 pages, 8vo, Sherborne House, on headed paper with vignette, 24 June 1851, repaired tear in the lower left corner of the second leaf, with associated minor loss, hinge slightly split, remains of mount on verso
[with]: a cut signature from a letter dated 10 April 1863, written from Gad’s Hill Place, the country home of the Dickens family
[with]: a cut signature from a letter dated 10 April 1863, written from Gad’s Hill Place, the country home of the Dickens family
Literature
The Letters of Charles Dickens, VI, pp.416-417
Catalogue Note
Dickens writes "out of Dorsetshire" from Sherborne House, the home of his great friend William Macready from 1851 to 1860. Dickens expanded on his plan in a letter written the following day to Thomas Beard, inviting him to join them and explaining that Charley "'knows a bank' where we can dine... you and I will console ourselves for our antiquity, after dinner, with a trifle of tobacco and champagne in the starn of the vessel".