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1861-1870

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To CHARLES ELLIS,1 17 AUGUST 1865

Text from digitised facsimile on Inkwell Gallery website, Mar 2002.

GAD’S HILL PLACE,

HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Thursday, Seventeenth August, 1865

Dear Mr. Ellis

Please send me another quarter cask of sherry.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Charles Ellis (1824-1908; see Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 490n), with George Ellis, wine merchants to the Queen: see Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 160 and n.