The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To CHARLES KENT, 9 OCTOBER 1866

MS Gotshall Collection, New York State Library.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Tuesday Ninth October 1866

My Dear Kent. Not the slightest notion of dressing. No such thing is ever done here – come at 1/2 past 6 this evening.1

                                                                                                                                                                               Ever Yours | CD.

• 1. Dickens had written the day before, saying he must stay in the Office for the next two days, but asking Kent to dine with him either on Tuesday or Wednesday: see Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 253.