- Brief description
- Letter, Charles Dickens to Gilbert Elliot, Dean of Bristol, 6 May 1854
- Label
- This letter replaces the extract included in addendix of the Pilgrim Letters, Vol.12. Charles Dickens compliments the Dean on his discourse and also mentions the Foundling Hospital Chapel, where he rented a pew. The ‘discourse’ he refers to was probably Elliot’s sermon that he preached at the Cathedral, Bristol, on Wednesday April 26 1854. Elliot was Dean of Bristol Cathedral, having moved there from Holy Trinity, Marylebone in 1850, see Pilgrim Letters Vol. VI, p. 538, editor's note 1.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- A897
- Object type
- letter
- Production person
- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 6 May 1854
- Extent
- Single letter.
- Inscription content
- Tavistock House
Sixth May, 1854
My Dear Dean
I have read your excellent discourse (as I have heard many of its family in Trinity Church) with very great pleasure. Let me express my sincere hope that you will never depart from the admirable habit of remembering me.
Stress of (Evangelical and very cloudy) weather, has driven me into the Foundling, whence I see no prospect of getting out until you are Bishop of London.
Always very faithfully yours
CHARLES DICKENS - Credit line
- Purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Friends of the National Libraries and the Dickens Fellowship.
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