The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Period: 
1851-1860
Theme(s): 
public recognition
celebrity

To R. S. MANSON,1 7 SEPTEMBER 1859 

Text from MS facsimile in Swann Galleries catalogue, May 2005.

GAD’S HILL PLACE,

HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Wednesday Night Seventh September 1859.

Sir.

I shall be happy to accept the Dedication you are so obliging as to offer me. Your delicacy in not putting your name to the sensible and timely little work, I quite appreciate. And I fully concur in its expediency.2

R. S. Manson Esquire.

With thanks, I remain | Faithfully Yours

 CHARLES DICKENS

  • 1. Unidentified.
  • 2. Presumably priv. printed; no book by Manson traced.