DEAR MADAME VIARDOT,

Mrs. Dickens tells me that you have only borrowed the first number of

"Little Dorrit," and are going to send it back. Pray do nothing of the

sort, and allow me to have the great pleasure of sending you the

succeeding numbers as they reach me. I have had such delight in your

great genius, and have so high an interest in it and admiration of it,

that I am proud of the honour of giving you a moment's intellectual

pleasure.

Believe me, very faithfully yours.

[Sidenote: The Hon. Mrs. Watson.]

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