The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1836-1840
Theme(s):
family
To FREDERICK DICKENS,1 [?1840]
Facsimile (envelope only) on eBay, January 2016.
Date: Handwriting suggests 1840. Frederick Dickens is first listed as a junior clerk, Commissariat Branch of the Treasury, in 1840.
Address: Frederick Dickens Esquire | Commissariat | Treasury.2
- 1. Frederick William Dickens (“Fred”; 1820-68), CD's younger brother; John Dickens’s second son and fourth child.
- 2. In 1839, CD secured the post of junior clerk in the Treasury for Frederick. He was promoted in 1841 and 1854, and by 1858 (by which date he had transferred to the War Commissariat) he was one of six second-class clerks (Pilgrim Letters 1, p. 533n).