'Now if I don't make the completest mistake'

Description

From the autograph album of Mrs. S. C. Hall (after 1836).

Creator

Dickens, Charles

Source

Autograph Album of Mrs. S. C. Hall.

Rights

Held at The New York Public Library's Archives & Manuscripts, http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19176#c218463. Quoted in Hall, S.C. and Mrs. S.C. Hall. ‘Memories of the Authors of the Age’. Art-Journal, vol.5, 1 January 1866, pp. 21-24; p. 22 and Hotten, John Camden. Charles Dickens, the Story of his Life (John Camden Hotten, 1870), pp. 280-281.

Type

Bibliographic Citation

Dickens, Charles. 'Now if I don't make the completest mistake.' For Mrs. S.C. Hall (written after 1836): Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-after-Now_if_I_dont_make_the_completest_mistake.

Transcription

Now, if I don't make
The completest mistake
That ever put man in a rage,
This bird of two weathers
Has moulted his feathers,
And left them in some other cage.

Collection

Citation

Dickens, Charles, “'Now if I don't make the completest mistake',” Dickens Search, accessed April 30, 2024, https://www.dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-after-Now_if_I_dont_make_the_completest_mistake.