BIB_ID
414366
Accession number
MA 14018.9
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
Higham, Kent, 1860 September 14.
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".
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).
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
Remarking on their delight at receive their son, Sydney Smith Dickens, "in uniform", asking for a list of books (which Sydney will need for his naval education), and informing Burrow that he will be going to the establishment of optician and instrument maker George Dolland.
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