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To LADY WESTMORLAND,1 20 MARCH 1866

Text from facsimile in Christie’s catalogue, 6 June 2006; on Gad’s Hill headed paper.

6 Southwick Place, Hyde Park W

Tuesday Twentieth March 1866

Dear Lady Westmorland

I am exceedingly sorry that my vote is regularly given, in aid of another deserving applicant,2 who seems to be perpetually seeking and never finding. In the hope that we may have the pleasure of seeing you before long, Believe me always

The | Countess of Westmorland

Very faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Priscilla Anne Fane, née Wellesley-Pole (1793-1879), widow of John, Earl of Westmorland (1784-1859), of 29 Portman Square: see further Pilgrim Letters 10, p. 275n.
2. Presumably for the Hospital for Incurables; one of Lady Westmorland’s daughters had applied to CD for his vote in 1863 (Pilgrim Letters 10, pp. 274-5). See also To Mrs David Lloyd, 29 Nov 65, Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 113.