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To CHARLES SABINE,1 24 APRIL 1849

Replaces mention in Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 520.

Text from facsimile in Swann Auction Galleries catalogue, 2004.

Devonshire Terrace

Twenty Fourth April 1849.

Dear Sir

Accept my thanks for your book2 and note, and believe me

Faithfully yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Charles Sabine Esquire

1. Charles Sabine (1796-1859), solicitor and poet, of Oswestry, Shropshire. Friend and school-fellow at Mill Hill of CD’s friend Thomas Talfourd. Uncle of Shirley Brooks, of Punch, who served articles with him 1830-3. Published The Council of Constance, 1848, besides Sylva Sacra, 1853, The Jewel and Star, 1855, and other mainly religious verse. A strong Evangelical, he believed fervently in Christ's second coming and laid a place for Him at every meal (see G. S. Layard, A Great 'Punch' Editor, 1907, p. 10; Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 475n).
2. Probably The Council of Constance, 1848. Sabine had already sent CD A Little Book for Our Poor Little People, his 1849 vol. of poems; see Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 475, and n.