Item Info

Accession Number: 87-535
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Gad's Hill Place

Higham by Rochester, Kent

Thursday Sixteenth August 1860

My Dear Mitton

I am selling Tavistock House, and, as my papers are not here, want to ask you two questions about it. Have I the fire Insurance Policy, or have you? Have I the last receipt for the payment of the premium, or have you? I want both. Will you answer to this address.

You will easily understand that I have had, and still have, a great deal of anxiety arising out of poor Alfred’s Death. His affairs were in a bad state, and his widow and children must be looked after and cared for. They are at present in a Farm House near here.

Unless there should be any hitch (which I don’t expect) the purchaser of Tavistock House will be a Jew Money Lender. An odd change in the occupation! And I strongly suspect that a good many people about town who have been there now and then during the last nine years, will present themselves under the new administration in an entirely new capacity.

Ever Faithfully

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MssDate: Thursday Sixteenth August 1860
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Mitton, Thomas, 1812-1878
Provenance: Sawyer via Sessler 1955

Bibliography:

The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Nine, 1859-1861. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 286.

Country: Creation Place Note:Gad's Hill Place
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Creation Year: 1860
Call Number: DL M698 1860-08-16
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author