Item Info

Accession Number: 87-267
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Devonshire Terrace
  Sunday
My Dear Frederick
  I think it will be best to tell this man that I am informed he is addicted to drink, and that therefore I must decline to assist him – not because I claim any right to judge his failings, or to punish them, but because I know it is useless and hopeless to give money to a drunkard.
  But as they seem to be in real distress, I would give the wife, the ----?, and, if the baby be still lying unburied, I would pay Chesterton's proposed agent, to perform that office.
  Affectionately Ever
  CD.

Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Cf. Nonesuch ed., v.1, p.550.

Recipient: Dickens, Frederick, 1820-1868
Provenance: Benoliel, Mrs. D. Jacques 12/6/55

Country: Creation Place Note:Devonshire Terrace
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL D556f 1843-00-00
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author