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"Mr Tenniel has been here today and will go to work on the frontispiece (for the Haunted Man - below). We must arrange for a dinner here, very shortly, when you and he may meet." Letter to John Leech 30/10/1848 https://t.co/m5JDobkHGH
It's twelfth night! "Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were...immense twelfth cakes, and seething bowls of Punch, that made the chamber dim with their glorious steam." ACC Stave 3
Looking forward to the final event of the DF calendar tonight - the Christmas Supper. Lots of great events already planned for members in 2020.
Dickens and Covent Garden - a DF walk led by Dr Tony Williams. Meet 14.00 at Holborn tube (Kingsway entrance). "The attorney betook himself to his drawing-room, the clerk to the Magpie and Stump, and Job (Trotter) to Covent Garden to spend the night in a vegetable market." PP 47