The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To G. F. HUDSON,1 3 APRIL 1869

MS University Archives, Westport, CT.

Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool2

Saturday Third April 1869

My Dear Mr. Hudson

I shall not be in London until Monday the 12th. at 12 at “All The Year Round office.”3 But I shall be [ ]4here all this next week, and will execute the deeds5 and add my Secretary’s6 attestation, if you deem it worth while to send them down for that purpose.

Faithfully Yours

 CHARLES DICKENS

G.F. Hudson Esquire

• 1. George Frederick Hudson, solicitor, of Hudson, Matthews, Lopez and Coupland, of 23 Bucklersbury.
• 2. CD was in Liverpool on his Farewell Series of readings.
• 3. In a brief return to London: he read in London on 13 April and then went on to Bradford.
• 4. Word deleted by CD.
• 5. Unidentified. Possibly related to arrangements for Ellen Ternan; also possibly related to property referred to in CD’s Will as “vested in me as a trustee or mortagee” (Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 731).
• 6. George Dolby. He was with CD on this Farewell Series; CD referred to him as both “my manager” and “my Secretary” (Pilgrim Letters 12, pp. 199, 336).