Item Info

Accession Number: 87-380
Physical Description: [2] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

  Gad’s Hill Place,
  Higham by Rochester, Kent.
16 Somer’s Place Hyde Park W.
  Monday Sixth March 1865
My Dear Sir
  I beg to thank you cordially for the trouble you have so kindly taken in my behalf. We have bought the wine on very good terms, I think, and I am happy to enclose you a crossed cheque for my purchase-money.
  I gladly avail myself of the services of the person whom you employ to move your part of the wine, and – to save you trouble – write his instructions on the other side.
  My Dear Sir
  Yours faithfully and obliged
  Charles Dickens
John Humphery Esquire

Mr. Dickens’s 16 Dozen to be divided into two halves:
  One Half to be sent by North Kent Railway, addressed:
  Charles Dickens Esqre.
  Gad’s Hill Place
  Higham
The other half to be delivered to:
  John Forster Esqre.
  Palace Gate House
  Kensington
(close to where the turnpike use to stand)
A note of the whole charge for packing and removing, to be sent to Mr. Dickens, 16 Somer’s Place Hyde Park W.

MssDate: Monday Sixth March 1865
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Humphery, John, 1825-1868
Provenance: Purchased from Sessler 8/27/1957, Gratz Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 11, pp. 23-24, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:16 Somer's Place Hyde Park W.
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL H885 1865-03-06
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author