The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To JOHN KENYON, 29 JANUARY 1849

MS Armstrong Browning Library, Texas.

Devonshire Terrace | Twenty Ninth Janury1 1849.

My Dear Mr. Kenyon.2

I shall be delighted to come to you on Friday,3 and book myself accordingly.

John Kenyon Esquire.

Faithfully Yours alwys

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. CD omitted the second “a” in both “January” and (below) in “alwys”.
• 2. John Kenyon (1784-1856; Dictionary of National Biography), wealthy man of letters and philanthropist. Forster called him “our dear friend” (F, III, ii, 210); CD, reviewing their circle to Macready (2 Feb 49), described Kenyon facetiously as “smooth, oily, beaming, and slippery (He is my particular friend...)” (Pilgrim Letters 5, pp.488-9).
• 3. For dinner, 2 Feb.