The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To B. BRITTEN,1 [1867]

Extract in Nonesuch Letters, III, 532; dated [1867]; addressed Gad’s Hill Place.

I have thoroughly made up my mind that I will never become a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons,2 and that I will not depart from my old sphere of action.

• 1. Unidenitified.
• 2. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s, CD repeated his determination never to enter the Commons: see e.g. To De La Prynne, 14 Mar 57, Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 300; To T. A. Trollope, 13 Sep 68, Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 182; and To Freeman, 19 Apr 69, Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 337.