Elm Cottage, Petersham, Thursday Morning, no date (ca. Summer, 1839). One sheet, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (184 x 114 mm). Autograph letter, signed by Charles Dickens to Samuel Rogers, "My Dear Sir, I did not receive your kind invitation until last Monday or I should have been delighted to come to town and avail myself of it. I send you my address...to prevent delays in future. My Dear Sir I am always Faithfully yours...Charles Dickens...Samuel Rogers Esquire". Browned; split at old folds, and now mounted to sheet; a few open tears along left side, affecting letters in "Elm".

Charles Dickens writes to his friend and admirer, Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), lamenting a missed opportunity to see the elder banker-poet, and sends Rogers his address at his summer house at Elm Cottage for future correspondence. Dickens first met Rogers, known for his literary patronage and generosity, at Holland House, earlier in 1839. The following year, in 1840, Dickens would dedicate his next novel Master Humphrey's Clock to him.

Dickens and his family stayed at Elm Cottage in Petersham, a quiet village near Richmond Park, for four months, from May-August 1839. Besides hosting friends and taking morning swims in the Thames River, Elm Cottage is where Dickens wrote some of the final segments of Nicholas Nickleby.