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1841-1850

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To CHARLOTTE DOLBY,1 14 DECEMBER 1850

Text from facsimile, eBay website, March 2006.

Devonshire Terrace | Saturday Fourteenth December | 1850.

My Dear Miss Dolby

I shall be happy to see you here tomorrow, if it should suit your convenience, at half past one o’Clock.2

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Miss Dolby.

1. Charlotte Helen Dolby (1821-85; Dictionary of National Biography), contralto: see Vol. Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 242n.
2. They met as arranged. The subject of their discussion unknown, though presumably about her professional career: see Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 242 & n.5.