BIB_ID
414360
Accession number
MA 14018.6
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
Higham, Kent, 1860 June 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written on stationery printed, "Gads Hill Place, / Higham by Rochester, Kent".
With a draft of the recipient's response to Dickens on verso, granting Sydney Smith Dickens permission to extend his holiday in order to attend his sister's wedding.
Letter forms part of a collection of 11 letters from Charles Dickens to Rev. Ashton Burrow, a co-principal at the naval school North Grove House (MA 14018.1-11).
With a draft of the recipient's response to Dickens on verso, granting Sydney Smith Dickens permission to extend his holiday in order to attend his sister's wedding.
Letter forms part of a collection of 11 letters from Charles Dickens to Rev. Ashton Burrow, a co-principal at the naval school North Grove House (MA 14018.1-11).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Requesting permission for his son, Sydney Smith Dickens, to extend his holiday at home so that he might attend the wedding of his "second sister" (Kate Dickens, later Kate Perugini) on July 17.
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