The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MESSRS COUTTS & CO.,1 10 FEBRUARY 1868

Text from facsimile in on-line catalogue, Victor Gulotta Collection, May 2011.

Baltimore U.S.2 | Tenth February 1868.

Messrs: Coutts and Co:

Please pay to the credit of Mr. George Dolby3 in account with you. Three Hundred Pounds,4––––––––––––––––––––––––––5 £300..0..0.

CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Bankers, of 59 Strand, with whom CD had an account from Nov 1837 to the end of his life.
• 2. CD was in Baltimore, 9-12 February.
• 3. George Dolby (1831-1900); manager of CD’s readings since 1866: see Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 193n.
• 4. The details of CD’s contract with Dolby for the American readings not known; this presumably an interim payment to ensure Dolby’s family had funds to draw on before his return.
• 5. CD wrote on a sheet of writing paper turned horizontally; he drew a line across the page after “Pounds,” in imitation of a cheque.