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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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Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship), DickensLetters.com.

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Period:

1851-1860

Theme(s):

clothing

To MESSRS NICOLL & CO.,1 [?1854-60]

Envelope only.

Text from facsimile in Chiswick Auctions online catalogue, Jan 2020.
Address: Messrs Nicoll & Co. | Tailors | 114 Regent Street
Date: Perforated red penny stamp first issued Feb 1854. Signature confirms 1850s.

1. Messrs H.J. Nicoll & Co. provided CD with tailoring services from 1848-68. Payments to this firm (by cheque, as recorded in CD's bank account) were generally quite small, averaging between £2 and £5 (MS Messrs Coutts). The payments CD made to other tailors were invariably for larger amounts.