Recollections of Writers
Charles Dickens to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, 19 December 1855
Tavistock House, 19th Dec. 1855.
My dear Mr. and Mrs. Clarke.—I cannot tell you how
much I am gratified by the receipt of your kind letters, and the pleasantest
memorial that has ever been given me to stand upon my writing-desk. Running over
from Paris on Saturday night, I found your genial remembrance awaiting me, like a
couple of kind homely faces (homely please to observe, in the sense of being
associated with Home); and I think you would have been satisfied if you could have
seen how you brightened my face.
Always faithfully your friend,
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.
