The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To RICHARD ZOUCH TROUGHTON1,13 AUGUST 1845

Text from facsimile in Bloomsbury Auctions online catalogue, December 2015.

Devonshire Terrace

York Gate Regents Park

Thirteenth August 1845.

My Dear Sir.

I am much indebted to you for your kind remembrance of me. I am going into Kent, for a few days, on Friday next2, and shall be unfortunately prevented from availing myself of it. But I do not the less esteem it, believe me.

I am Dear Sir

Very faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Zouch Troughton Esquire 

• 1. Richard Zouch Troughton (1807-89), playwright, author of the tragedy Nina Sfoirza, in which William Charles Macready played the villain in a production which opened 2 November 1841 at the Haymarket.
• 2. CD took his family on holiday to the Albion Hotel, Broadstairs 15–20 August.