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1861-1870

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To THE EARL GRANVILLE,1 4 MARCH 1865

MS Maggs Bros Ltd.

16 Somer’s Place Hyde Park W2

Saturday Fourth March 1865

My Dear Lord Granville

I have been laid up at my office in town with a frost-bitten foot3 (consequent on too much walking in snow), and received your kind note of invitation only this morning. I hasten to thank you for it, and to explain my seeming remissness. As I shall be here until June, I shall hope to have the honour and pleasure of thanking you in person for your kind remembrance.

The | Lord Granville

Very faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

1. George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville (1815-91; Dictionary of National Biography); leading Liberal politician.
2. Taken by CD for the London Season, from the beginning of March to early June.
3. Contracted shortly before 21 Feb; actually inflammation of the joints, presumably gout: see To Forster, [3 Mar 65], Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 23.