The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1851-1860
Theme(s):
public readings
travel
editing
To WILLIAM KELLY,1 3 OCTOBER 1858
Text from facsimile in Jarndyce Dickens catalogue CXLV.
Royal Hotel, Aberdeen2
Sunday Night | Third October 1858.
Dear Sir
I have received your very welcome note,3 and I beg very cordially to thank you. But unfortunately I have not received the newspaper to which your note refers. Could you have the kindness to send me a copy of the Sonnet4 I am naturally anxious to read – either to Glasgow (care of Mr Muir Wood,5 Buchanan Street), between this and Saturday; or to my house (Tavistock House) in London, afterwards?
William Kelly Esquire
Yours faithfully and obliged
CHARLES DICKENS
- 1. Possibly Thomas W. Kelly, London schoolmaster; contributed “Animal Mechanics” to Household Words (10 July 52); author of Rosemary Leaves, 1854, and other collections of verse: see Pilgrim Letters 10, p. 363.
- 2. On Monday morning, in John Marr’s Music Saloon, CD read the Carol and in the afternoon he read Little Dombey: for his Autumn 1858 Reading tour see Pilgrim Letters 8, passim and Appx H.
- 3. No doubt forwarded from the office by Wills.
- 4. Not traced.
- 5. John Muir Wood, of J. M. Wood & Co., pianoforte and music sellers, 42 Buchanan Street, Glasgow; CD’s agents for his readings in Glasgow.