'To Mrs Horne'
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From a letter to Mrs Horne (20 October 1856).
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Dickens, Charles
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'Mrs. Horne.' The Letters of Charles Dickens. Edited by his Sister-in-Law and his Eldest Daughter. Volume 1 (1833-1856), p. 456-457. Chapman and Hall, 1880.
Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/letterscharlesd09dickgoog/page/n473/mode/2up.
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Dickens, Charles. 'To Mrs Horne' (20 October 1856). Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Middleton and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1856-10-20_Letter_To_Mrs_Horne_Poem.
Transcription
My heart disowns
Ophelia Jones;
only I think it was a more sounding name,
Are these the tones, –
Volumnia Jones?
No. Again it seems doubtful.
God bless her bones,
Petronia Jones!
I think not.
Carve I on stones
Olympia Jones?
Can that be the name? Fond memory favours it more than any other. My love to her.
Ophelia Jones;
only I think it was a more sounding name,
Are these the tones, –
Volumnia Jones?
No. Again it seems doubtful.
God bless her bones,
Petronia Jones!
I think not.
Carve I on stones
Olympia Jones?
Can that be the name? Fond memory favours it more than any other. My love to her.
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Dickens, Charles, “'To Mrs Horne',” Dickens Search, accessed September 16, 2026, https://www.dickenssearch.com/verse/1856-10-20_Letter_To_Mrs_Horne_Poem.