DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed ('CD.') to Mark Lemon ('My dear Lemon'), Devonshire Terrace, 18 May 1849, 2 pages, 8vo (faint traces of adhesive on corners of blank verso).
Dickens writes to his close friend Mark Lemon (1809-1870), the playwright and a founder and first editor of Punch. He has returned to find Lemon's boy has brought him a note, and so promptly pens a reply ('I will keep the orthographical curiosity, to read while you read this'). It comprises arrangements for their imminent outing with John Forster, presumably to the Derby on 23 May; thinking their party too large for a barouche he asks Lemon if he thinks 'there is any other kind of conveyance... that would be at once comfortable and [?speedy]). Rather complicated arrangements continued the following day when Forster decided not to go (see Pilgrim Edition, The Letters of Charles Dickens, V, p.543).
DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed ('CD.') to Mark Lemon ('My dear Lemon'), Devonshire Terrace, 18 May 1849, 2 pages, 8vo (faint traces of adhesive on corners of blank verso).
Dickens writes to his close friend Mark Lemon (1809-1870), the playwright and a founder and first editor of Punch. He has returned to find Lemon's boy has brought him a note, and so promptly pens a reply ('I will keep the orthographical curiosity, to read while you read this'). It comprises arrangements for their imminent outing with John Forster, presumably to the Derby on 23 May; thinking their party too large for a barouche he asks Lemon if he thinks 'there is any other kind of conveyance... that would be at once comfortable and [?speedy]). Rather complicated arrangements continued the following day when Forster decided not to go (see Pilgrim Edition, The Letters of Charles Dickens, V, p.543).
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