The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To WILLIAM SAMUEL EMDEN,1 22 DECEMBER 1859

Text from facsimile in unnamed catalogue, January 2001.2

TAVISTOCK HOUSE,

TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON. W.C.

Thursday Twenty Second December, 1859

[My] Dear Sir

If you should happen to have [a] vacant box tonight,3 my daughters would be happy to occupy it.

[W. S.] Emden Esquire

Faithfully Yours 

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. William Samuel Emden (?1801-72), theatre manager and playwright; lessee and manager of the Olympic Theatre from 10 Aug 57, of which he had previously been treasurer: see Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 394n.
• 2. The facsimile is cut off at the left hand margin which removes [My] [a] and the initials [W. S.] of the addressee.
• 3. Four pieces were advertised for the evening: A Base Imposter; The Head of the Family; Medea; Tom Noddy’s Secret.