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- Letter, from Charles Dickens to Dr J. J. Guggenbuhl, 13 March 1853
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- Letter from Charles Dickens to Dr. J. J. Guggenbühl, 30 March 1853, written from Tavistock House. Dickens invites him to dinner. Dickens firstly bemoaned the fact that since returning to his London home, Tavistock House, he had ‘been so constantly occupied’ so that he was unable ‘to enjoy the gratification…promised’ in meeting with him. Dickens then went on to suggest that if Guggenbuhl were ‘disengaged to day ’ that it would give himself and his wife great pleasure in joining them for dinner along with Dr Elliotson and another ‘English friend’ that shared an interest with himself in objects close to his heart as well as Switzerland.
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- A596
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- letter
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- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 30/03/1853
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- Tavistock House | Wednesday Morning | Thirtieth March 1853.
My Dear Sir
Since my return to town I have been so constantly occupied that I have not been able to enjoy the gratification I had promised myself in seeing you. And I am sorry to add that I have an engagement this morning which obliges me to go out.
But if you should, by good fortune, be disengaged to day, and if you would kindly excuse so short an invitation, it would give Mrs. Dickens and myself unusual pleasure to see you at dinner at a quarter before 7. Dr. Elliotson dines with us, and another English friend (lately from Switzerland) who takes a strong interest in all such objects as you have at heart.
My Dear Sir | Very faithfully Yours
CHARLES DICKENS
Dr. Guggenbuhl. - Credit line
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