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1851-1860

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To JOHN SCHOLL,1 17 SEPTEMBER 1856

Text from facsimile in R&R Auctions, July 2010.

Tavistock House

Wednesday Seventeenth September | 1856.2

Mr. Charles Dickens begs to inform Mr. Scholl that he spoke to Mr. Scholl’s man, requesting to have an estimate for a large external lamp in the fanlight of the street door, instead of the present gas-fitting in the front hall. Not having received it, Mr. Dickens thinks it may have been forgotten.

1. Engineer and gasfitter, 41 & 42 Berwick Street, Soho.
2. Address and date at foot of letter.