The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MESSRS ESSELL KNIGHT AND ARNOLD,1 6 SEPTEMBER 1866

Facsimile in International Autograph Auctions online catalogue, June 2013 

GAD'S HILL PLACE,

HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Thursday Sixth September 1866

Dear Sirs 

Allow me to thank you for your letter of yesterday’s date. 

The lime trees2 will probably be planted about a month hence. I will take care that Mr Langford3 has good notice of my gardener’s being ready for the work. 

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Messrs. Essell Knight and Arnold.

• 1. Solicitors and clerks to the Rochester Magistrates.
• 2. CD wished to plant a row of lime-trees on the side of the high-road along the whole wall-frontage of his property. See Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 240; dated 4 September 1866.
• 3. Perhaps George Langford, of 17 Edwin St, Gravesend, acting on behalf of the Magistrates.