The Charles Dickens Letters Project

 To CHARLES DRESSER,1 8 MAY 1860

MS R & R Catalogue, No. 269.

TAVISTOCK HOUSE, | TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON. 

W.C. 

Tuesday Eighth May, 1860.

My Dear Sir

We will stick to the 9½ train from London, so we shall be ready to begin2 the moment we arrive.3 All the other arrangements you propose so kindly, are excellent. I would not return at 8, you may be sure, but for being really obliged to do so. Wills sends kind regard

Charles Dresser Esquire

Always Faithfully Yours 

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Charles Dresser, of Stoke, a suburb of Coventry.
• 2. Dresser was to explain “the state of matters” (To Dresser, 26 Apr); possibly to do with Sir Joseph Paxton’s relations to his constituents (Paxton was one of Coventry’s two M.P.s). There had been tensions over Paxton’s voluntary absence from a presentation dinner to CD by the Coventry Institute in Dec 58 (Pilgrim Letters 8, pp. 714-15 & nn). Clearly, CD considered the business important, whatever its nature.
• 3. CD and Wills travelled, 10 May, by the 9.30 from Euston, aiming to reach Coventry at 12.10 and returning by the 8 p.m. train.