The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MISS GEORGINA HOGARTH, 30 MAY 1848

MS State University of New York, Buffalo. Address: Miss Hogarth | Charles Dickens Esquire | 1 Devonshire Terrace | York Gate Regents Park | London. PM 30 May 1848.

Manchester. | Tuesday May 30th. 1848.

My Dear Georgy

If I don’t appear and terrify the establishment by knocking them up before you receive this (which is highly probable) I shall be home soon after 4 tomorrow afternoon.1 Have a bit of fish (not salmon) and something hot for dinner at 1⁄2 past 5, as it is probable that Lemon2 and Forster3 will turn up. 

Love to all | In great haste affecy always | CD.

• 1. CD had been in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester in connection with the forthcoming Amateur Company’s performances there.
• 2. Mark Lemon (1809-70; Dictionary of National Biography), playwright and editor of Punch: see Pilgrim Letters 3, p. 469n. CD had also invited him to dinner for the Thursday (Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 324).
• 3. John Forster (1812-76; Dictionary of National Biography), historian and man of letters, CD's closest friend and biographer.