The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To NELLY LEMON,1 19 May 1851

Text from facsimile in Buddenbrooks online catalogue, Nov 2020.
On mourning paper.2

Household Words Office
Monday Nineteenth May 1851

My Dear Mrs Lemon.

            Kate3 and Georgy4 will be in town at a little before 4, and will call for you very soon after that hour.

                        Ever Faithfully Yours

                        CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Nelly (Helen) Lemon, née Romer (1817-90). Sister of the actor and composer Frank Romer, through whom she met and married (in 1839) CD's friend Mark Lemon (1809-70; Dictionary of National Biography), playwright and editor of Punch, 1841-70.
• 2. CD's daughter Dora had died suddenly on 14 Apr 1851.
• 3. CD's wife Catherine (1815-79).
• 4. CD's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth (1827-1917).