Re: Other letters by Dickens
Charles Dickens (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:51:45 -0100
My dear Sir,
You make no error in sending me your message. Alas, I cannot comply with
your request. I cannot tell you how many letters I have written. The
Clarendon Press, I understand, is publishing a new edition of them. In
thirty-three years, nine volumes have appeared, over 7,000 pages, and the
edition has only reached 1861!
Will you be content if I quote you, verbatim, one cheeful letter I sent to
my good friend Forster, just one hundred and sixty years ago, from this
house, 48 Doughty Street? I hope so.
My dear Forster,
You don't feel disposed, do you, to muffle yourself up, and start
off with me for a good brisk walk over Hampstead Heath? I know a
good 'ous there where we can have a red hot chop for dinner, and a
glass of good wine.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I am as dull as a
Codfish.
Faithfully thine CD
If you can, say "Yes" & I'll come down to you.
Familiar as you are with today's postal services, there are probably details
of this which puzzle you. You should understand I sent it by a servant, who
brought a reply in little more than half an hour. And I was able to go down
to Forster's lodgings - downhill, that is, towards the river, and to
Lincoln's Inn Fields where Forster lived.
Faithfully yours,
Charles Dickens
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