Re: Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:29:48 -0100
My dear Miss Hood,
Can you, looking back on your eleven years, decide what was your favourite
moment? And you want me to decide, looking back on my fifty-eight! Orders
rarely come taller. But I cannot, for the moment, recall a finer moment
than the one when I saw in print my very first little story, "A Dinner at
Poplar Walk." It was 1833, I was twenty-one years old, and I walked into
Westminster Hall to calm my spirits. But Westminster Hall swam before my
eyes in a dazzle of tears.
I don't think I enjoyed writing any book more than I did my first novel,
"Pickwick Papers." There were others I enjoyed having written at least as
much, but the very act of writing was, with "Pickwick," sheer joy. If,
later on, the reward became greater, so too did the effort.
I wish you success with your project.
Faithfully yours
Charles Dickens
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>Dear Mr Dickens
>
>I am doing a project on the victorians and writing an essay on you,I have
>read about you and am greatly interested in your work and life.
>Your life was very interesting (like your books). What was your favourite
moment and what book did you enjoy writing the most.
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Jordan Hood (aged 11)
>Pencaitland Primary School
>East Lothian, Scotland
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Charles Dickens
charles_dickens@rmplc.co.uk
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