Abstract
This chapter describes how Charles Dickens invited friends over dinner to celebrate his unplanned 27th birthday at Doughty Street, February 7, 1839. He wrote to the actor-manager J. P. Harley to join the dinner despite bad weather. Harrison Ainsworth and John Forster were among the guests. Leigh Hunt was a much older man and at that time 55. In his young days, when Dickens was a babe of one year, he was imprisoned for two years and fined £500 for what was considered to be a libel against the Prince Regent. Menu for the diner included vegetable soup; fried sole with shrimp sauce; roast fillet of beef: stuffed kalecannon; minced mutton with bacon; savory omelet; and raspberry jam sandwiches
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