The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
social engagements
To ANNE PROCTER,1 3 NOVEMBER 1865
Text from facsimile in Bloomsbury Auctions online catalogue, March 2017.
OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND
Friday Third November 1865
My Dear Mrs Procter
I am delighted to book myself for Tuesday the 21st Novr at a quarter past 7.
Affecy Yours ever
CHARLES DICKENS
- 1. Anne Procter (1799-1888), daughter of Captain Thomas Skepper and Anne Dorothea (afterwards the third wife of Basil Montagu); married Bryan Waller Procter 1824; well known as the witty hostess of a wide literary circle. CD had known the couple since the late 1830s.