The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To ANDREW PROVAN1[?late December 1843]2

MS (fragment) Peter Greer.

3to see your school4one night. Will it be open next Monday or Tuesday evening: and at what hour would it be best to come? If it be not open on either of these evenings, will you tell me on what nights next week, it will be open?

Faithfully Yours Dear Sir

CHARLES DICKENS   

Mr Provan.

• 1. Andrew Provan, superintendent of Field Lane Ragged School.
• 2. See, Pilgrim Letters 3, p. 616 (To S. R. Starey 29 December 1843), for CD’s first encounter with Provan.
• 3. First page of letter missing.
• 4. Field Lane Ragged School. See CD’s moving description of his visit in 'A Sleep to Startle Us', Household Words 4 (13 March 1852): 577-80.