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Dickens, Charles. To [addressee], [date of letter]. Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship). [URL of individual letter], [date of access].

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1851-1860

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theatre

To MR GIBSON,1 7 SEPTEMBER 1852

Dover, Seventh September | 1852

Text from digitised facsimile in Josef Lebovic allery website, April 2002.

Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Mr. Gibson and begs to acknowledge the receipt at Newcastle 2 of Mr. Gibson’s very obliging note. His constant occupation has prevented him from availing himself of Mr. Gibson’s kind proposal, and even from answering the note until now -- his first leisure moment.

1. Unidentified.
2. CD was in Newcastle on 27 Aug for a performance by the Amateurs in aid of the Guild of Literature and Art; they performed Mr Nightingale’s Diary and Lytton’s Not So Bad as we Seem: see PIlgrim Letters 6, pp. 746-9 and nn. They were on tour between 22 Aug and 4 Sep: see ibid., pp. 730-2.