The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To THOMAS C. CURRY,1 19 APRIL 1845

Text from facsimile in Finarte online catalogue, Jun 2024.

Peschiere2
Saturday Night
Nineteenth April 1845

My Dear Sir

    I enclose you the order, with very many thanks. I take great blame to myself for not having sent it to you any time these three or four days, but I thought we should meet somewhere, probably.

    With regards at home, always believe me

        Faithfully Yours

          CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Thomas C. Curry (?1798–1863), merchant, and possibly agent for a steamship company (see Pilgrim Letters 4, p. 309); one of the English residents in Genoa, with an address on the Acqua Sola. John Forster wrote of him, “there was in especial one gentleman named Curry whose untiring kindness was long remembered” (The Life of Charles Dickens, ed. J.W.T. Ley [London: Cecil Parker, 1928], p. 336). CD wrote to him from Broadstairs on 29 June 1847: “I do not forget old Genoa, so easily…. Mrs. Dickens and her sister are stunning me with so many messages to Mrs. Curry—and the children are shrieking so many reminders and remembrances to your children—that I think the shortest plan is to leave them to the imaginations of the parties concerned. Which cannot be too earnest, or too cordial, for the truth” (Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 105).
• 2. Palazzo Peschiere, Genoa, where CD stayed during his Italian sojourn. He returned to Peschiere from his visits to Rome, Naples and Florence, on 9 Apr, and left Genoa on 9 Jun.