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Letter from Charles Dickens, Higham, Kent, to Rev. Joseph Ashton Burrow, 1860 August 27 : autograph manuscript with the signature removed.

BIB_ID
414367
Accession number
MA 14018.8
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
Higham, Kent, 1860 August 27.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.4 x 11.3 cm
Notes
With signature and name of recipient cut away; recipient identified as Joseph Ashton Burrow on the basis of related correspondence. Cf. House, Storey, and Tillotson.
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).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Granting permission to have his son Sydney fitted for a uniform and asking Burrow how much he owes him on Sydney's account.