The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To CHARLES WILKINSON,1 8 DECEMBER 1857

MS Daniel Moss.
Address: Charles Wilkinson Esquire | Bank House | Kendal

Tavistock House, London
Eighth December, 1857

Dear Sir

    I feel much indebted to you for your kind letter. But I deem it right to reply, for the reasons given in my last, that I cannot undertake to make even the conditional prospective engagement it so obligingly proposes to me.2

    Dear Sir

        Faithfully Yours

    CHARLES DICKENS

Charles Wilkinson Esquire.

• 1. Charles Wilkinson (1827–?1903), solicitor and amateur archaeologist; he was particularly interested in Roman ruins.
• 2. Probably an invitation for CD to address the Kendal Literary and Scientific Institution, of which Wilkinson was Vice-President.