Recollections of Writers
Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, 14 November 1853
Tavistock House, 14th Nov. 1853.
My dear Mrs. Cowden Clarke,—You remember
the flowers you sent me on the day of the publication of the first of these pages?
I shall never forget them.
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Pray give the book a place on your shelves, and (if you can) in
your heart. Where you may always believe me
Very faithfully yours,
Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke [née Novello] (1809-1898)
The daughter of the musician Vincent Novello, she married Charles Cowden Clarke in 1828
and wrote works on Shakespeare, including
The Complete Concordance to
Shakespeare (1845).
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English novelist, author of
David Copperfield and
Great Expectations.