- Brief description
- Letter, from Charles Dickens to Thomas Beard, 12 April 1837
- Label
- Dickens invites his close friend, Thomas Beard, to dinner at 48 Doughty Street with John Ross. All three had been parliamentary reporters, as had Dickens's maternal uncle, Edward Barrow. Dickens mentions George Cruikshank, a nationally-acclaimed artist who was illustrating the newly-published Oliver Twist. Years after Dickens’s death, Cruikshank would claim he had created the story of Oliver Twist, not Dickens. The portrait mentioned by Dickens is in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- A15
- Object type
- letter
- Production person
- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 12/04/1837
- Inscription content
- 48 Doughty Street. | Wednesday Morning
My Dear Beard.
John Ross dines with us on Saturday. Will you do the same at 5 oClock? Let me know.
Tell Edward Barrow if you see him this evening, that I was sitting for my portrait to George Cruikshank when he called to-day, and George being a ticklish subject could not leave him.
Believe me
Faithfully Yours
Charles Dickens
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