SD2694. Charles Dickens to William Powell Frith

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 302 (in part).

57 Glo’ster Place

Hyde Park Gardens

Wednesday Thirteenth April, 1864

My Dear Frith

See what a fellow Edwin Landseer is! He never gave me a hint of the day—said he didn’t know it, when he described those evenings to me—said he would look at his list and tell me about it—never has told me any thing more—and here am I, on Saturday the 23rd. going out of town with Forster, Browning, and Wilkie Collins, to keep Shakespeare’s birthday in peace and quiet. Was there ever such a fellow!

Ever Faithfully

Charles Dickens

Publication: The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. M. House, G. Storey, et al. (Oxford, 1965–2002), 10, 381.

Manuscript: Victoria and Albert Museum.

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