Charles Dickens to GHL, Higham, 6 August 1859
Title
Charles Dickens to GHL, Higham, 6 August 1859
Title
Charles Dickens to GHL, Higham, 6 August 1859
Sender
Charles Dickens
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1859-08-06
Place
Higham
Letter Content
Charles Dickens to GHL, Higham, 6 August 1859
Text: The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. Walter Dexter, 3 vols., 1938, III, 115.
Gad's Hill Place, Higham By Rochester | Kent.
Saturday Sixth August 1859.
My dear Lewes, --
The receipt of your note 465 has given me real pleasure; but I am afraid I cannot have the greater pleasure yet, of responding to it in person, until I return to town for the winter.
I have not been quite well since we had the great summer heat -- a circumstance so unusual with me, that I have been lost in indignant surprise. Being very busy besides I only go to town to the office on the days when my presence there is necessary, and immediately return to work here. Thus, I do not think that I should be able to get to Wandsworth, until I go into winter quarters at Tavistock House.
But I will not fail, you may be sure, to propose myself when the opportunity is nearest to my reach and in the meantime I hope you and George Eliot will hold me in your kind remembrances.
Faithfully yours always
Charles Dickens.
P.S. I have a horrible and unnatural desire upon me to see Liggins, whom, I am proud to remember I contemptuously rejected.
Text: The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. Walter Dexter, 3 vols., 1938, III, 115.
Gad's Hill Place, Higham By Rochester | Kent.
Saturday Sixth August 1859.
My dear Lewes, --
The receipt of your note 465 has given me real pleasure; but I am afraid I cannot have the greater pleasure yet, of responding to it in person, until I return to town for the winter.
I have not been quite well since we had the great summer heat -- a circumstance so unusual with me, that I have been lost in indignant surprise. Being very busy besides I only go to town to the office on the days when my presence there is necessary, and immediately return to work here. Thus, I do not think that I should be able to get to Wandsworth, until I go into winter quarters at Tavistock House.
But I will not fail, you may be sure, to propose myself when the opportunity is nearest to my reach and in the meantime I hope you and George Eliot will hold me in your kind remembrances.
Faithfully yours always
Charles Dickens.
P.S. I have a horrible and unnatural desire upon me to see Liggins, whom, I am proud to remember I contemptuously rejected.
Signature
Charles Dickens.
Citation
Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens to GHL, Higham, 6 August 1859, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/91742