The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MARGUERITE POWER,1 28 DECEMBER 1859

Facsimile in Bloomsbury Auctions online catalogue, December 2014.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND

Wednesday Twenty Eighth December 1859

My Dear Marguerite.

“Yes,” to “Getting up Early.”2 With pleasure.

Kind regard at home

Ever affecy.

CD.

• 1. Marguerite Agnes Power (1815-67), niece of CD’s friend the Countess of Blessington. She edited The Keepsake (1851-7), and published a number of novels, including Evelyn Forester (1856), The Foresters (1858), The Letters of a Betrothed (1858), Nelly Carew (1859) and Sweethearts and Wives (1861). In 1860 she wrote Virginia’s Hand, a long narrative poem dedicated to John Forster.
• 2. ‘Getting Up Early’, All the Year Round 3 (12 May 1860): 105-8.