The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To CHARLES KENT,1 22 SEPTEMBER 1869

MS Huntington Library.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Wednesday Twenty Second Septr 1869

My Dear Kent.

Floored again! Otway2 is “abroad.”3

Ever affecy

CD.

• 1. William Charles Kent (1823-1902; Dictionary of National Biography), proprietor and editor of the Sun: see Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 280 & n and later vols.
• 2. Arthur James Otway (1822-1912), Liberal MP for Chatham, 1865-85: see Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 113n. Lived at 9 Harley Street and Teddington Place, Teddington, Middx.
• 3. I.e. not available for the meeting CD had arranged with Kent that morning (Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 411); the meeting presumably connected with Kent’s attempt to be appointed editor of the London Gazette, the post vacant by the death, early September, of T. L. Behan.