The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
social engagements
health
To THE EARL GRANVILLE,1 4 MARCH 1865
MS Maggs Bros Ltd.
16 Somer’s Place Hyde Park W2
Saturday Fourth March 1865
My Dear Lord Granville
I have been laid up at my office in town with a frost-bitten foot3 (consequent on too much walking in snow), and received your kind note of invitation only this morning. I hasten to thank you for it, and to explain my seeming remissness. As I shall be here until June, I shall hope to have the honour and pleasure of thanking you in person for your kind remembrance.
The | Lord Granville
Very faithfully Yours
CHARLES DICKENS
- 1. George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville (1815-91; Dictionary of National Biography); leading Liberal politician.
- 2. Taken by CD for the London Season, from the beginning of March to early June.
- 3. Contracted shortly before 21 Feb; actually inflammation of the joints, presumably gout: see To Forster, [3 Mar 65], Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 23.