Record Number: 12117
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'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
Date:Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1837
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:7 Feb 1812
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Journalist and writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[MS verses]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
ProvenanceFound
Sent to Dickens by Cox.
Source Information:
Record ID:12117
Source:Charles Dickens
Editor:Madeline House
Title:The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1965
Vol:1
Page:349
Additional Comments:
Additional editor: Graham Storey. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition.
Citation:
Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 349, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12117, accessed: 20 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter to George Cox in 1837 (no further details of date.)
