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Barrow : [note on the qualities of tobacco]
I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle
Henry Torrens [Sir] : Field exercises and evolutions of the army
And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursing my folly in having put no books into my portmanteau. The only book I have seen here, is one which lies upon the sofa. It is entitled ?Field Exercises and Evolutions of the Army by Sir Henry Torrens.? I have read it through so often, that I am sure I could drill a hundred recruits from memory.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage
I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which contains the Life of Savage. I have turned down the leaf. Now do read it attentively; if you do, I know from your excellent understanding you will be delighted. If you slur it, you will think it dry.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book
Charles Dickens : The Black Veil
?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but practised eyes will observe them. I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair the interest of the story by partially explaining its main feature.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book
: The Morning Chronicle
?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Newspaper
: Fraser's Magazine
?I see honorable mention of myself, and Mr. Pickwick?s politics, in Fraser this month. They consider Mr. P a decided Whig.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Serial / periodical
unknown : submissions to Bentley's Miscellany
?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen numbers; and nearly all have forwarded the most appalling nonsense I ever had the ill fortune to peruse.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Richard Bentley : Prospectus for Bentley?s Miscellany
?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
John Gideon Millingen : The Portrait Gallery
?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make nothing of it. I think very little of the gentleman who writes so complacently from Northampton with his first of a Series; but I suppose he?s a great man in a small way.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Henry Fielding : The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and was immediately ordered as much medicine as would confine an ordinary-sized horse to his stall for a week. Whether it arises from the ?influentials?, or from close application, or from worry, or from the wind cholic, to quote King Arthur, I know not; but this I know-that surely against my will, much to my disappointment, here I am, and in a gloomy and miserable state, here I must remain.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown
: Poor Law Bill
?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown
G.P. Payne : Uncle Sam's Peculiarities
?My dear Sir, I have looked over Uncle Sam, and am still of the opinion I originally formed, that we could not use it for the Miscellany without great injury to the Author. It contains a great deal of matter; and if I took a few pages here and there, occasionally, it would neither, I am convinced, serve his purpose nor ours. I therefore think it better to return the MS to you without further delay, wishing it to be distinctly understood that in so doing, I wish by no means to be considered as expressing any unfavorable opinion of the MS itself.?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Zschokke : Blue Wonder
?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in the old Sailor?s very best style.?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown
Matthew Barker : Nights at Sea
?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in the old Sailor?s very best style.?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown
Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon : [articles]
?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess considerable interest for military or naval gentlemen, I fear that to the public generally ? our public at all events ? they would present few attractions. Perhaps you will do me the favor to present my best compliments and thanks to Major Gordon and to suggest that the United Service Journal would be the best medium he could select for the publication of his papers. Beg him to understand distinctly that in returning them, I by no means question their merit, but merely express my opinion that they are not adapted to the pages of the Miscellany.?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown
: The Examiner
?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from that dismal extremity of qualmishness into which I am accustomed to sink when I have ?the blue above and the blue below?. I have always thought that the ?silence wheresoe?er I go? is a beautiful touch of Barry Cornwall?s (otherwise Procter) descriptive of the depression produced by sea-voyaging. I know it?s remarkably silent wherever I go, when I?m on the briny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Newspaper, Unknown
B.W. Proctor : 'The Sea'
?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from that dismal extremity of qualmishness into which I am accustomed to sink when I have ?the blue above and the blue below?. I have always thought that the ?silence wheresoe?er I go? is a beautiful touch of Barry Cornwall?s (otherwise Procter) descriptive of the depression produced by sea-voyaging. I know it?s remarkably silent wherever I go, when I?m on the briny.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book, Unknown
Charles Ross : The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge
'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-digested form. Reciprocating all your kind wishes most cordially, I rest Most sincerely yours, Charles Dickens.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens
William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood
'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I intended riding out to tell you how warmly I felt it, and how much sincere delight your friendship affords me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Book
Wilks : Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is so redolent of twaddle that I fear I can not take it up on any conditions to which you would be disposed to accede. I should require to be ensured three hundred pounds in the first instance without any reference to the Sale-and as I should be bound to stipulate in addition that the work should never be published in Numbers, I think it would scarcely serve your purpose.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Daniel Defoe : The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern
'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for a couple of shillings yesterday morning, and have been quite absorbed in it ever since.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Cox : [MS verses]
'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I say that however much of truth there may be in them, I should be guilty of very bad taste if I placed them before the public eye; or that the reference to myself and the feelings upon which it is founded are better kept within my own heart?' Lastly, I beg you to accept my best thanks for your novel; I hope to read it with much pleasure.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Miss Reynolds : unknown
'Madam, I have read the paper you were kind enough to forward to me, and very much regret that I cannot avail myself of it. It is not in a style of composition which would be serviceable to the Miscellany of which I am the Editor, neither is it in my power to commence any new series of papers just now. I trust you will not feel hurt by this communication; be assured that I am perfectly sensible both of the kind womanly feeling which pervades your little tale, and of the excellence of the motive which prompted you to write it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Thomas Gaspey : The Grand Juror
'My Dear Sir, As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my not having been able to find room in the next No. for that same paper. If you will leave it in my good keeping until the 28th. (February is a short month) we will astonish the Grand Jurors with it. I have laughed very heartily over it, and although I have never served (for I always pay my taxes when they won?t call any longer, in order to get a bad name in the parish and so escape all honors) I can see it is true to the life.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Grantley Berkely : Chariot versus coach
'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I had previously read and returned, and consequently suppose has been sent back to me by mistake.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Sheet
Edward Oliver : unknown
'Sir I very much regret that your note has so long remained unanswered. It was put aside among some answered letters, and so escaped me. I recollect very shortly after I received your two papers, writing you a note in which I ventured to say that I did not think the idea of a Surgeon?s Diary at all a promising one after the Physician?s; and that I did not consider your articles adapted to the Miscellany. I therefore declined these with many thanks for your preference.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown
John Forster : [works]
'Dr. Sir. Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a slight gage d?amour; it is many years (do not be alarmed, I am still very young) since I first became acquainted with your worth and excellence. I have seen you ? met you ? read your works ? heard you speak ? listened, in a breathless state, to your eloquent and manly expression of the sentiments which you do honor; and still by no word or sign have I discovered that you recognized in me the giver of the simple worthless riding whip which I have often seen in your hand, and once (when you [ ] it) nearly touched.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
: The Terrific Register
'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which, considering that there was an illustration to every number in which there was always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap."'
