The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To SARAH CURRY,1 12 APRIL 1845 

Text from facsimile in Sotheby's online catalogue, Sept 2019. 

Peschiere2

Saturday Evening

Twelfth April 1845. 

My Dear Mrs Curry.

            Do me the favor to accept the accompanying little book.3 It is a very poor mark of my sincere and cordial regard; but I would live in your recollection sometimes after leaving here: and it may serve, perhaps, as a help to your remembrance, for want of a better.

                                    Believe me

                                    Faithfully Yours

                                    CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Sarah Curry, née Robson, wife of Thomas Cannaway Curry (d. 1865), merchant, one of the English residents in Genoa ("large merchants and grave men"), "whose untiring kindness", according to John Forster, "was long remembered" (Life of Charles Dickens [London: Cecil Palmer, 1928], p.  336); CD sent messages to his wife and children, 29 June 1847 (see To Thomas Curry, 29 June 1847, in Pilgrim Letters 5, pp. 104-5), and revisited the family in Oct 1853.
• 2. Palazzo Peschiere, Genoa. The Dickens family moved in around 23 Sep 1844, returning periodically while travelling around Italy (returning on 20 Dec 1844 and 9 Apr 1845); the family left Genoa on 9 June.
• 3. The Chimes. This letter accompanied a presentation copy, inscribed "Mrs: Curry | From | Charles Dickens | Genoa. Twelfth April 1845".