Item Info

Accession Number: 63-0699
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Villa des Moulineaux, Boulogne
Sunday Twenty Fifth September 1853.
Dear Frederick.
It has come into my head several times lately, that I omitted to answer a letter of yours received some time back, in the midst of very hard work and constant occupation.
I am not unacquainted with the invention to which you referred.  But I think it is rather an ingenious toy, applicable only to very slight purposes of printing, than a means of producing books and voluminous masses of composed type.  For this reason, I thought it best to avoid going to see it; as the gentleman now interested might have been disappointed by my doing so--or sending anyone on my behalf--and doing no more.
I fully intended to have written you this, for your own satisfaction, at the time.  But I put off in the pressure I have mentioned--and then was ill--and then came here, and have been here at work ever since.
Always Affectionately
Charles Dickens

MssDate: Sunday Twenty Fifth September 1853
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868
Provenance: Sotheby, 7/22-23/63,Thompson and Rutter Fund.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Seven, pages 155-156.

Country: Creation Place Note:Villa des Moulineaux
Country:France
City/Town/Township:Boulogne

Creation Year: 1853
Call Number: DL D556f 1853-09-25
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author