The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD,1 24 APRIL 1852

MS Private.

Tavistock House

Twenty Fourth April 1852

My Dear Layard

Can you give Mrs. Dickens and me, the pleasure of your company at dinner, next Friday at a quarter to Seven.

Dr.2 Layard.

Faithfully Yours alwys

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Austen Henry Layard (1817-94; Dictionary of National Biography), excavator of Nineveh and Liberal politician: see Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 555n.
• 2. Presumably CD’s slip for “Mr.” In MS, the opening greeting’s correction of “Layard” suggests haste.