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DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed ('CD.') to Mark Lemon ('My dear Lemon'), Devonshire Terrace, 18 May 1849, 2 pages, 8vo (faint traces of adhesive on corners of blank verso).
DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed ('CD.') to Mark Lemon ('My dear Lemon'), Devonshire Terrace, 18 May 1849, 2 pages, 8vo (faint traces of adhesive on corners of blank verso). Dickens writes to his close friend Mark Lemon (1809-1870), the playwright and a founder and first editor of Punch . He has returned to find Lemon's boy has brought him a note, and so promptly pens a reply ('I will keep the orthographical curiosity, to read while you read this'). It comprises arrangements for their imminent outing with John Forster, presumably to the Derby on 23 May; thinking their party too large for a barouche he asks Lemon if he thinks 'there is any other kind of conveyance... that would be at once comfortable and [?speedy]). Rather complicated arrangements continued the following day when Forster decided not to go (see Pilgrim Edition, The Letters of Charles Dickens , V, p.543).