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- Letter, from Charles Dickens to Thomas Beard, 26 October 1845
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- Thomas Beard was one of Dickens's oldest friends. Both had been journalists at the Morning Chronicle in their youth and Beard remained there after Dickens left. In this letter Dickens asks Beard about how reporters send news from Asia to British newspapers. He may have been asking such questions in October 1845 because he was about to launch his own newspaper, The Daily News, in a few months. Dickens mentions Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, attending one of Dickens's amateur theatrical performances. He also mentions his wife's pregnancy. Catherine would give birth to their son Alfred two days later.
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- Archives & Manuscripts
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- A53
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- letter
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- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 26/10/1845
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- Thomas Beard Esquire | 42 Portman Place | Edgeware Road.
Devonshire Terrace | Sunday Night
My Dear Muster Beard
Resolve this question.--Those small correspondents at Madras, Ceylon, and Aden--do they make separate parcels of their newspapers, addressed to the agent at Malta; or do they open the parcel on its way from Calcutta, and put them in it? If so, how is the parcel addressed when it leaves Calcutta?--To the Agent at the next place? This seems to me to be a query essential to the right working of things.
Here's a pretty kettle of Fish! Prince Albert is coming to our next performance. And it will be at the St. James's Theatre on the 15th. of next Month.
Mrs. Dickens in statu quo. I call her Joanna Southcote.
The freshness of my mental faculties on the Day after the Claret, exceeds description. That must be done again, my friend.
Ever Affectionately
CHARLES DICKENS
P.S. Forster is already getting deep dents in his nose, by reason of the workings of the coming Kitely.
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