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To H. H. GLADDERS & JOHN H. GUY,1 6 DECEMBER 1847

Text from facsimile in unidentified online catalogue. Address: H. H. Gladders Esquire and John H. Guy Esquire / Mechanics Institution / Workington / Cumberland.2

London 2 Devonshire Terrace

York Gate Regents Park

Sixth December 1847.

Gentlemen

I beg you to believe that if I could comply with your request, and accept your invitation so very agreeably and modestly urged it would give me much pleasure. But my engagements render it absolutely impossible that I can have that satisfaction.

Your faithful Servant

H. H. Gladders Esq. / and / John H. Guy Esquire

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Henry Harrison Gladders (b. 1827), schoolmaster; John Harrison Guy (1819-71), real estate and bank proprietor. Officials of the Workington Mechanics' Institution.
2. The envelope’s postmark is illegible in the source. The letter’s text is a copy, CD’s signature being a careful imitation, which supports the text’s authenticity as being made from CD’s original.