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Accession Number: 2002-13
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Gad's Hill Place

Higham by Rochester, Kent

Saturday, Eighth October, 1859

My Dear Sir,

By some unaccountable oversight I have never thanked you for your kind note of last July and the Brucian. Pray excuse me, I was not well when I received your favour, but I immediately went through the book, and was greatly interested and pleased with it. How it has happened that I have never told you so I cannot imagine. The book has been on my table here ever since, and it never looked at me reproachfully until this very morning.

Do me the kindness to assure the young friend who remembers me in the volume so much to my true gratification, that I have not in the least slighted his tribute. I have felt it warmly, and the possibility of his having thought otherwise of me in these three months gives me more uneasiness than I can well express to you.

I beg to send him my kind regard. And in the hope that he, and all the young people in whom you have a near and dear interest, will long bear the best testimony that can be rendered to the merits of your wholesome system.

I am always

Faithfully Yours

Charles Dickens

MssDate: Eighth October 1859
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

"Arthur Hill (?1798-1884), brother of Sir Rowland and Matthew Davenport Hill...succeeded his father, Thomas Wright Hill, as Headmaster of Hazelwood School, Birmingham, moving it to Bruce Castle, Tottenham, in 1833."

"The Brucian, "Published by the Scholars of the Bruce Castle School," Tottenham, ed. E. G. L. Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, June 1850-2.."

By "system," Dickens is referring to the new system implemented at Bruce Castle, c.f. Pilgrim Vol. IV, p. 356n.

 The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Nine, 1859-1861. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 128-129.

Provenance: Barnes 10/01

Bibliography:

   The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Nine, 1859-1861. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 128-129.

Country: Creation Place Note:Gad's Hill Place
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Higham by Rochester, Kent

Creation Year: 1859
Call Number: DL H55 1859-10-08
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author