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“I HAVE BEEN CONSTANTLY AFFLICTED
WITH A REVOLVING NIGHTMARE”
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DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, to editor of the
Sun
Charles
Kent (“My Dear Kent”), thanking for sending a cigar case, complaining of backlogged
work and the nightmares it has caused, and promising to send [John Brougham’s play, 1863]
The Duke’s Motto
. 1 page, 8vo, “Office of All the Year Round” stationery, with integral
blank, folds; faint scattered soiling.
London, 22 May 1868
[1,000/2,000]
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. . . Since I came back I have been so overwhelmed by six months arrears of business, intensely com-
plicated by the illness and absence of Wells, that I have been constantly afflicted with a revolving
nightmare. I hope however to send round ‘the Duke’s Motto’ this next week. I have been here—
there—everywhere—and (most of all) nowhere—from the time of my re-beholding Euston Square.”