The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,1 17 OCTOBER 1845

Text from facsimile on eBay, 22 Feb 2008. Envelope (MS Benoliel Collection), PM 18 Oct 45, probably belongs to this letter, addressed “George Cruikshank Esquire | Amwell Street | Pentonville”.

Devonshire Terrace | Seventeenth October 1845

My Dear George

I enclose you the Savings Bank Paper, signed;2 and £30 for your Investment.3

George Cruikshank Esquire

Ever Yours 

 CD

• 1. George Cruikshank (1792-1878; Dictionary of National Biography), artist and caricaturist: see Pilgrim Letters 1, p. 82n. CD described him to Miss Coutts (Sep 45) as “one of the best creatures in the World, in his own odd way” (Pilgrim Letters 4, p. 380).
• 2. Clearly connected to Cruikshank’s and CD’s interest in Bertha Wight (To Miss Coutts, 17 Sep, [24 Sep], & 1 Dec 45, Pilgrim Letters 4, pp. 380-1, 385, 443). CD applied this same day to become a Depositor in the Finsbury Savings Bank as trustee of Bertha Wight (Pilgrim Letters 4, p. 385n), passing the documentation on to Cruikshank.
• 3. Presumably a further sum to be invested for Bertha Wight’s benefit.