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Dickens, Charles. To [addressee], [date of letter]. Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship). [URL of individual letter], [date of access].

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1841-1850

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To THE LANDLORD OF THE BELL HOTEL,1 29 SEPTEMBER 1848

Replaces extract in Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 892.

Text from facsimile of first page only (aa), and extract (bb) in Jarndyce online catalogue, May 2020.

On mourning paper.

Address: The Landlord or Landlady of | The Bell Hotel | Maidstone | Kent

^aMr Charles Dickens sends his compliments to the Landlord of the Bell Inn, Maidstone, and begs that there may be prepared for him tomorrow (Saturday) a comfortable private sitting room, with dinner for five persons2 at five o'Clock; and four bedrooms. His party will arrive early in the afternoon, and will^{a b}leave on Sunday.^b

1. Spencer Bow Swinfen (?1812-86), proprietor of the Bell Commercial Inn and Posting House, Week Street, Maidstone.
2. Probably the artist Frank Stone, artist and illustrator John Leech and his wife Anne (who must have returned to Broadstairs), as well as John Forster.