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Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins
Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins Author:Charles Dickens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: very well translated into a sounding kind of old English in Hazlitt's translation of Montaigne. If you are disengaged next Saturday, March the 4th, and it sho... more »uld be a fine day, what do you say to making it the occasion for our Rochester trip ? Faithfully yours always, C. D. W. Wilkie Collins, Esquire. Tavistock House, Monday, Twenty-fourth April, 1854. My Dear Collins,—I met the Colonel at the Water Colors on Saturday, and asked him if he would assist in scattering the family dinner next Sunday at half past 5, as usual. Will you join us, Sir? Beaucourt's house above the Moulineaux, on the top of the hill—free and windy—not so bijou-ish, but larger rooms, and possessing a back gate and a field, secured by the undersigned contracting party from the middle of June to the middle of October. I hope you will write the third volume of " that" book there. [Chauncey Hare] Townshend coming to town on the 12th of May. Pray Heaven he may not have another choral birthday, and another frolicultural cauliflower. Ever faithfully, C. D. I think this word a bold one. It is intended for floricultural.—C. D. Tavistock House, Sixth June, 1854. My Dear Collins : Form of trip appointment, in compliance with Act of Parliament. Victoria, cap. 7, sec. 304, Day,Thursday.Hour,Quarter past II A.M.Place,Dover Terminus, London Bridge.Destination,Tunbridge Wells.Description ofRailway Qualification, Return Ticket.(Signed) Entd.Charles Dickens. Tavistock House, Seventh June, 1854. My Dear Collins,—Mark has got something in his foot—which is not Gout, of chapter{Section 4course, though it has a family likeness to that disorder — which he thinks will disable him to-morrow. Under these circumstances, and as this inclement season of summer has set in with so much se...« less