The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MADAME CELESTE,1 4 JANUARY 1860

Text from facsimile in R & R Autograph Auctions catalogue, Dec 2003.

TAVISTOCK HOUSE,

TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON. W.C.

Wednesday Fourth January 1860

My Dear Madame Celeste

I will call on you at the Theatre,2 this afternoon at half past Two.

Faithfully Yours alwys

CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Céline Céleste-Elliott, known professionally as Madame Céleste (?1814-82; Dictionary of National Biography), actress and theatre manager: see Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 120n.
• 2. The Lyceum, where CD was advising on Mme Celeste’s production of Tom Taylor’s adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities. The Times (28 January) noted his “supervision” of the production, which ran from 30 Jan to 24 Mar 1860.