The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1841-1850
Theme(s):
social engagements
To WILLIAM JERDAN,1 2 JUNE 1843
Text from facsimile in unnamed catalogue, January 2001.
Devonshire Terrace
Second June 1843
My Dear Jerdan
Many thanks for your kind remembrance of me. I tried hard, but I couldn’t come; being engaged that day, four times.
Faithfully Yours always
CHARLES DICKENS
W. Jerdan Esquire
- 1. William Jerdan (1782-1869; Dictionary of National Biography), editor of the Literary Gazette 1817-50; from 1820 a leading figure in literary society: see Pilgrim Letters 1, p. 207n; also Jerdan’s Autobiography (4 vols, 1852-3).