The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To P. JOHNSON,1 11 NOVEMBER 1848

MS Huntington Library.

1 Devonshire Terrace | York Gate Regents Park.

Eleventh November 1848.

Sir

I am much indebted to you for sending me a copy of your daughter’s verses. They are very remarkable as the production of so young a muse; they have interested me very much; and I feel it a great honor to have been the source of their inspiration. I may venture to beg you to give my love to the poetess, and remain

P. Johnson Esquire

Faithfully Yours

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Neither Johnson nor his daughter identified. “Triary” in Pilgrim Letters 5 was the catalogue’s misreading of “Esquire”.