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.