- Brief description
- Letter and envelope, Charles Dickens to Pauline Viardot, 19 January 1863
- Label
- Dickens regularly attended performances by his friend Pauline Viardot – world-famous singer and composer. Viardot introduced Dickens to many extraordinary women, challenging his preconceptions of femininity, including writer Madame George Sand. He often praised Viardot’s ‘great genius’ and here writes ‘I know no human creature from whom such sympathy would be more precious to me’ but skilled, intellectual women are not often depicted in his stories.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- A1017
- Object type
- letter
envelope - Inscription content
- Hotel du Holder
Monday Night, Nineteenth Jany
1863
My Dear Madame Viardot
Your note delights me. I know no human creature from whom such sympathy would be more precious to me.
I am going on a visit to near Geneva tomorrow night, but shall be back in seven days. May I dine with you next Sunday week?
I think I am going to read again. [As such/Do say that?] Sir Joseph Oliffe shall send you Tickets,
Ever Faithfully Yours
Charles Dickens. - Inscription description
- Black ink on blue paper
- Credit line
- Purchased with support from the Friends of the Nation's Libraries and Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant.
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