Item Info

Accession Number: 90-539
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Tavistock House
Saturday Evening
Twenty Fifth April, 1857

My Dear Sir
I am no stranger to the worth of your opinions, and the force they derive from your knowledge, feeling, and habits of reflection.
Your letter has afforded me the greatest pleasure. Believe me, whatever gratification I have been so fortunate as to give you, you have most generously and handsomely repaid. I cannot sufficiently express to you the estimation in which I hold a tribute so spontaneously and affectionately rendered.
It cannot be more agreeable to you to find me writing without satire, than it is to me to find myself in the height of geniality. But, as a writer with a great audience, who deeply feels certain salient public vices of his time, must not them altogethre go by him. He has his duty to do, and he must do it - yoking it to his pleasanter fancy as well as he can.
My Dear Sir
Very Faithfully Yours
Charles Dickens
The Reverend Archer Gurney.

MssDate: Twenty Fifth April, 1857.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Gurney, Reverend Archer Thompson, 1820 - 1887
Provenance: Sotheby through Maggs 9/20/90, Benoliel

Bibliography:

 The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Eight, 1856-1858, p. 319.

Country: Creation Place Note:Tavistock House
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL G966 1857-04-25
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author