- Brief description
- Charles Dickens to John Dickens, 3 November, 1842
- Label
- Dickens had been visiting Cornwall and Devon and writes to explain why he couldn't visit John, his father. Dickens's parents had been living for the last three years at Mile End Cottage in Alphington, Devon. Dickens moved them there to distance John from London where he habitually racked up debts and embarrassed Dickens. John would return to London a month or so after this letter and continue mismanaging his finances.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- A891
- Object type
- letter
- Production date
- 03/11/1842
- Inscription content
- Castle, Taunton | Thursday Evening November Third 1842
My dear Father.
I write a hasty line from this place to say that coming from Okehampton this morning (having left Tintagel yesterday), we did not pass Alphington, but went straight, by some road I don't know, to the New London, where we changed and immediately came on here lest we should be too late for the Train. This is the reason why I did not see you, as I had hoped to do.
We have had a very charming excursion, among much bold and splendid scenery—one break-down on a Cornish road, but nobody hurt.
Stanfield, Maclise, and Forster unite in best regards, and I am always, with love to Augustus
Affectionately Yours
John Dickens Esquire. Charles Dickens - Credit line
- Purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, the Friends of the National Library and the Dickens Fellowship.
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