The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To JAMES SIMMS,1 8 MARCH [1842]

MS Pook & Pook Inc., June 2008; only the ending in CD’s hand (aa), the rest in George Putnam’s.2

United States Hotel3 March 8

Dear Sir.

Let me thank you cordially for your recollection of me this morning, and for your little present to one of my children. I assure you that I am truly obliged to you, and that I am

Mr. James K. Simms

(a) Dear Sir | Faithfully Yours (a)

 (a) CHARLES DICKENS (a)

• 1. Unidentified; the middle initial in the subscription uncertain whether K or R.
• 2. George Washington Putnam (1812-96); recommended to CD by Francis Alexander, to whom CD sat for his portrait on his arrival in Boston (Pilgrim Letters 2, p. 438 & n). Began as CD’s secretary in the United States, Jan 42: see further Pilgrim Letters 3, pp. 26-7 & nn.
• 3. Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, where CD arrived 5 Mar.