The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To SEBASTIAN SCHLESINGER,1 8 DECEMBER 1867

MS Nial Devitt Books Catalogue, 2003.

Westminster Hotel, NewYork.2

Sunday Eighth December, 1867

My Dear Mr. Schlesinger.

Many thanks for the whiskey, and for all other tokens of your kind remembrance.3 If I had not delivered myself up, wholly and absolutely, in bondage to the Readings, I should have had the pleasure of seeing more of you before now.

Sebastian Schlesinger Esqre

Faithfully Yours alys

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Sebastian Benzon Schlesinger; agent of Naylor Vickers in Boston; later settled in London. Close friend from 1873 of Wilkie Collins and one of his executors: see further Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 52n. and William M. Clarke, The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins, 1988. Invited to and attended the dinner (29 Feb 68) celebrating the Great Walking Match (Pilgrim Letters 12, pp. 52, 95).
• 2. CD had been in Boston, 19 Nov-7 Dec, arriving in New York on the evening of 7 Dec. He returned to Boston, 5 Jan 68.
• 3. Written in brown ink, the rest in blue.