The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To CHARLES KENT1, 30 JUNE 1865 

Text from facsimile in University Archives online catalogue, February 2017. 

Address: Private. | Charles Kent Esquire | 'The Sun' office | Strand | London | WC 

GAD'S HILL PLACE,

HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Friday Thirtieth June 1865 

My Dear Kent.

Can you come down on Sunday? Or I shall be coming down myself tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at 4 from Charing X to Gravesend, and should be delighted to bring you with me.2 

Ever Faithfully 

CD. 

• 1. William Charles Mark Kent (always known as Charles) (1823-1902; Dictionary of National Biography), poet and journalist, editor and proprietor of the Sun.
• 2. CD wrote to Kent the following day, from London, to say that he 'must leave' the All the Year Round office 'at 1/2 past 1 to keep an appointment, but shall be here until then' (Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 66). If Kent did go to Gad’s Hill, it is not clear whether he travelled on Saturday 1 July or Sunday 2 July.