The Search for Fanny Dickens's Handwriting

Gave the nurse a sovereign and returned - after hearing the clergyman's compliments on the distinction of the party - with Mr and Mrs Dickens, Mr Fletcher, and the two godmothers.9 The 'parson' with whom Macready was so angry, who signed the registry 'B. Burgess', is identif...

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Published in:Dickensian 2008-07, Vol.104 (475), p.101
Main Author: Hanna, Robert C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
British & Irish literature
Children
Compliments
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
English literature
Handwriting
Hearing
Letters
Marriage
Signatures
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Summary:Gave the nurse a sovereign and returned - after hearing the clergyman's compliments on the distinction of the party - with Mr and Mrs Dickens, Mr Fletcher, and the two godmothers.9 The 'parson' with whom Macready was so angry, who signed the registry 'B. Burgess', is identified as the 'Reverend Bryant Burgess, Clerk of Saint Marylebone, Middlesex', by the Public Record Office of The National Archives,10 which also holds his Last Will and Testament at the time of his death in 1846. Rose, thou art the sweetest flower, That ever drank the amber shower, E'en the gods, that walk the sky, Are am'rous of thy sweetest sigh, [scented sigh] Cupid too in Paphian shades His hair with rosy fillets braids Then bring me showers of roses bring, And shed them round me while I sing. 2nd Verse Rose, thou art the fairest child [fondest child] Of dimpled Spring the wood-nymph wild, Buds of roses, Virgin flowers Cull'd from Cupids balmy bowers In the bowl of Bacchus steep Till with crimson drops they weep, Then bring me showers of roses bring And shed them round me while I sing.
ISSN:0012-2440