The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,1 4 OCTOBER 1839

Text from facsimile in Christie’s catalogue, Apr 2008.

48 Doughty Street.
October 4th 1839.

My Dear George.

    With great pleasure — partly for your sake and partly for the sake of the young lady unknown.2.

        Faithfully Yours

            CHARLES DICKENS 

• 1. George Cruikshank (1792-1818; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator of CD’s Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, and Oliver Twist.
• 2. At the head of the page Cruikshank had written to CD with his request: “My Dear Dickens | I know you will oblige me with your autograph for a young Lady | Yours truly | GEORGE CRUIKSHANK”