Evidence: | '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.'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Feb 1812 and 31 Jul 1838 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Dickens |
Age | Child (0-17) |
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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Forster |
Title: | [works] |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12124 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | 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: | 422 | |
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. 422, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12124, accessed: 17 April 2024 |
Letter to John Forster. |
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