Dickens gives the place of writing as "Gad's Hill near Rochester."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Captain E. E. Morgan / New York / U.S. of America."
Part of a small collection of letters from Charles Dickens to Captain Elisha Ely Morgan. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information (MA 8724.1-2).
Thanking him for his "seasonable and welcome remembrance" and saying "[n]ever were such fine apples, or in such admirable preservation! And the Cigars came so opportunely, that I had just four and twenty of my Morgans - that's the name I give them - left;" telling him that he has sold Tavistock House and made Gad's Hill Place his headquarters, though he intends to keep a furnished house in London for his daughter's sake; writing "I hope you will have seen the Christmas No. of All The Year Round? Here and there, in the description of the sea-going Hero, I have given a touch or two of remembrance of Somebody you know ; very heartily desiring that thousands of people may have some faint reflection of the pleasure I have for many years derived from the contemplation of a most amiable nature and most remarkable man;" promising to send Morgan a copy of his book The Uncommercial Traveller.