The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To EDMUND YATES,1 5 NOVEMBER 1858

Text from facsimile in Bonhams online catalogue, 2015.

Office of Household Words | Friday Fifth November 1858

My Dear Edmund.

           I am going to have an early dinner to day,2 and you will find me at the Albion3 at 1/2 past 4.

Faithfully Ever

CD

• 1. Edmund Yates (1831-94; Dictionary of National Biography), journalist and novelist. Son of the actors Frederick Henry (see Pilgrim Letters 2, p. 10n) and Elizabeth Yates (née Brunton); educated at Highgate School and in Germany; entered the Post Office 1847, the Head of Missing Letters 1862, retired 1872. Member of the Garrick Club, Dec 1848. Married Louisa Katherine Wilkinson 1853. Met CD in 1854 and became a close friend and protégé. Contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round.
• 2. CD came to London for the day, from Gad's Hill. See To Vincent Wanostrocht, in Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 696.
• 3. The Albion Tavern and Hotel, 26 Great Russell St., Covent Garden, opposite Drury Lane Theatre. CD dined there frequently.