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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed to Richard Greene, Tavistock House, London, 3 November 1855, 2½ pages, 8vo; framed and glazed.
Lichfield responds to an appeal: 'Mr Carlyle, Mr Forster, and myself, hail with the greatest interest and satisfaction the prospect of our appeal being responded to by the citizens of Lichfield. No help rendered to these four ladies could possibly be so grateful and welcome as aid coming from the place that boasts of having given Johnson birth'. Dickens excuses himself from the proposed meeting because he will be in Paris: he would in any case have felt reluctance in 'obtruding any personal appeal of mine upon your citizens. I feel it so much more natural and becoming in me to leave them to their own generous impulses'.
Lichfield responds to an appeal: 'Mr Carlyle, Mr Forster, and myself, hail with the greatest interest and satisfaction the prospect of our appeal being responded to by the citizens of Lichfield. No help rendered to these four ladies could possibly be so grateful and welcome as aid coming from the place that boasts of having given Johnson birth'. Dickens excuses himself from the proposed meeting because he will be in Paris: he would in any case have felt reluctance in 'obtruding any personal appeal of mine upon your citizens. I feel it so much more natural and becoming in me to leave them to their own generous impulses'.
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