- Brief description
- Letter from Charles Dickens to F. M. Evans, 19 July 1849
- Label
- In this letter to Frederick M Evans, one half of Dickens's publishers Bradbury & Evans, Dickens requests money be deposited into his account with the bank Coutts. Dickens banked with Coutts all his life and was close friends with the banking heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. Dickens also invites Evans to stay with him in Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight, where Dickens and his family were about to go on holiday.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- A438
- Object type
- letter
- Production person
- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 19/07/1849
- Inscription content
- Devonshire Terrace | Nineteenth July 1849.
My Dear Evans.
I want a hundred pounds to be paid into Coutts's, if you can achieve that performance. If convenient, I shall be much obliged to you to do this at once.
I enclose a few heads for Mr. Joyce, concerning a weekly visit he will receive, during my absence from town, from Topping.
My address, from Monday until the end of September, will be
Winterbourne Villa
Bonchurch
Isle of Wight.
If you should ever feel inclined (as I think you will) to run away on a holiday, and will come to the aforesaid address, you shall receive a very hearty welcome, and see a very beautiful place. "A favorable opportunity now offers", as Mr. Pecksniff used to say in his advertisements, and I hope you'll not neglect it.
I don't know what the Devil is the matter with your people, in connexion with my Manuscript, but nothing between folio 10 and folio 24 of the last No. is returned. Will you get the missing portion for me, and relieve my mind by blowing up somebody?
I think this is all I have to say at present.
Faithfully Ever
CHARLES DICKENS
Have you heard from Bradbury?
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