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I forget in detail what they were , but I have a general recollection that he was to begin with reviving the Drama , and to end with crushing it ; inasmuch as his decease would leave it utterly bereft and without a chance or hope . Miserably I went to bed after all , and miserably thought of Estella , and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled , and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert 's Clara , or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham 's Ghost , before twenty thousand people , without knowing twenty words of it . One day when I was busy with my books and Mr. Pocket , I received a note by the post , the mere outside of which threw me into a great flutter ; for , though I had never seen the handwriting in which it was addressed , I divined whose hand it was . It had no set beginning , as Dear Mr. Pip , or Dear Pip , or Dear Sir , or Dear Anything , but ran thus : -- `` I am to come to London the day after to-morrow by the midday coach . I believe it was settled you should meet me ? At all events Miss Havisham has that impression , and I write in obedience to it . She sends you her regard .