The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To JOHN DURANCÉ GEORGE,1 3 FEBRUARY 1848 

MS private 

Devonshire Terrace
Thursday Third February 1848. 

Dear Sir.

            I am much obliged to you for your communication, and hope to have the satisfaction of joining the meeting2 at your house tomorrow evening.3

            Dear Sir

                        Faithfully Yours

                        CHARLES DICKENS

Durancé George Esquire

• 1. John Durancé George (1815-51), Dental Surgeon at University College Hospital and Lecturer on dental surgery. Studied medicine at University College London 1835-7; qualified as MRCS in 1838. He became dentist to London society figures, including the Dowager Queen Adelaide, and treated one of CD's children; see To George, 18 Feb 1848. George's cousin, Samuel Cartwright Jr (1815-91), became CD's dentist in 1853.
• 2. Unidentified.
• 3. CD wrote to George again on 10 Feb, to apologise for not being able to attend a meeting at his house; see Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 246.