The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To WILLIAM LOADEN,1 7 DECEMBER 1841 

Text from facsimile in Bubb Kuyper online catalogue, Nov 2018.

Devonshire Terrace

York Gate Regents Park

Seventh December 1841

My Dear Sir

            I send you the draft Warrant of attorney,2 in which I have made a very slight interlineation.

                                                Faithfully Yours

                                                CHARLES DICKENS

__ Loaden Esquire.

• 1. William Loaden (1800-63), solicitor, practising with his brother George at 28 Bedford Place, Russell Square. A friend of John Forster (who burnt "thousands" of Loaden's letters), and of Daniel Maclise, to whom he gave legal advice in Nov 50 (see To Daniel Maclise, 25 Dec 50, in Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 247, n 3). Eliza Lynn Linton recalled that Loaden, their family solicitor, and his brothers and sisters were her chief friends when she first came to London in 1845, and described him as a man of "sharp, brisk energy" and "absolute self-confidence" with "worldly knowledge and business capacity" (My Literary Life, 1899, pp. 48-50).
• 2. Probably connected with arrangements for the American visit. In Oct, CD was going almost daily into the City about such business, particularly with regard to insurance, and was still finalising matters in Dec (To Thomas Mitton, 29 Oct; To Edward Marjoribanks, 11 Dec, Pilgrim Letters 2, pp. 414, 442-3).