Item Info

Accession Number: 87-577
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

  Gad’s Hill Place,
  Higham by Rochester, Kent.
  Tuesday Thirty First October, 1865
My Dear Ouvry,
  I went to the Arts Club some days ago (“on information I had received” from Wills), to second you, but found you already seconded. Therefore I underwrote you.
  I am at present in the Christmas Mill, but expect to be flour very shortly.
  Ever Yours
  Charles Dickens

MssDate: Tuesday Thirty First October, 1865
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Ouvry, Frederic, 1814-1881
Provenance: Sotheby, lot 189, via Maggs 5/11-12/1970, Benoliel Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 11, p. 104, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia, compiled by Michael and Mollie Hardwick; Reading, UK: Osprey, 1973; p.235.

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

Call Number: DL Ou9 1865-10-31
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author