<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">xt7qjq0stw34_967 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Charles Dickens letter to [George Beadnell] text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Charles Dickens letter to [George Beadnell] 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_9/Folder_76/Multipage3186.pdf 1846 January 1 1846 1846 January 1 <scopecontent id="aspace_bd292064fd5d1cc3eb0a5641dfd6782c">
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  <p>Includes a transcript (excerpts from 5 letters to George Beadnell).</p>
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 DICKENS (CHARLES)
FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED to George Beadnell

(father of maria Beadnell).

10 pages. 8vo. Doughty Street, Devonshire

Terrace, and Gad's Hill Place. 1839-1859.

Condoling on the death of George Beadnell's son in
1839, and ten years later, on the death of Mrs. Beadnell;
concerning the Dramatic Performance given for the benefit
of Miss Kelly; referring to the translation rights of all
his books which he had giVen to a large publishing house
in Paris, etc.

" . . . . It is nothing that death is inevitable.
but it is something that it has been without pain, how
muchmore that it has been resigned and tranquil. that
the object of our love and regret has passed away in
peace, leaving nothing behind but pleasant thoughts of his
worth and excellence, and his timely reliance upon that
merciful Being who did not desert him in his hour of need.
In the plain and honest tribute to his memory which his
old companions pay, there is, I am sure, more lasting
comfort for you, than they (who are not fathers) can
conceive; and sharp as the pain must be of losing a
child, and that child so well deserving of your love and
affection, even his high deserts will, I feel assured,
reconcile you only the sooner to his untimely fate." &c.

"I apprehend you will find no difficulty whatever,
in getting good places of Miss Aelly, No 73 Dean Street
Soho. The tickets (it is for her benefit, or I should
have been delighted to send you some) are a guinea each." &c.

" . . . .‘Believe me that I feel the sympathy of an
old friend, with you in your affliction, and that the
memory of many old Kindnesses, bestowed upon me when I
was a mere boy, rises before me vividly, in connexion
with your melancholy tidings. I hardly dare to say to
you, whose grief is of a sacred Kind, how much I felt
your letter, and how many affecting and regretfulu

 

 thoughts it awakened within me." &c.

"Coming home from reading in the country, I find
your note. The enclosure in it not addressed to me,
allow me to return.

I have conveyed to a large publishing house in
Earis, the right of translating all my books; it is
therefore quite out of my power to afford any
facilities to Mdlle. Blanche. I hope Miss Lloyd will
Kindly undertake to explain why I cannot help the
younb lady.. . . .

. . . I am heartily well, and never any the
worse for being busy." &c.

 

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