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Letter from Charles Dickens, Higham, Kent, to Rev. Joseph Ashton Burrow, 1860 June 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
414363
Accession number
MA 14018.4
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
Higham, Kent, 1860 June 18.
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 note in ink on verso reading "Recommend 3 weeks / 20 June 1860".
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
Writing to arrange for his son, Sydney Smith Dickens, to return home from school for a holiday, and inquiring as to the length allowed for his stay.