The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To JOHN DICKENS,1 13 MAY 1842

MS (fragment) Klaus Schappert. Address: Per “Unicorn” St[eam Ship2 by way of Halifax.] | John Di[ckens Esquire] |…Al[phington]3 | D[evon]. PM Montreal MY 13 1842 and PM Exeter MY 30 1842.

In haste

Always Your Affectionate Son

CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. 1785-1851; CD's father.
• 2. A steam coaster, built in Glasgow 1836, that plied between Boston and Halifax, where the Cunard ships took on mail for the Atlantic crossing.
• 3. Where CD’s parents had been living since Mar 39.