The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Period: 
1851-1860
Theme(s): 
education
family

To THE REV. WILLIAM BELL,118 JUNE 1859

Facsimile in Fraser’s Autographs online catalogue, June 2014

Gad’s Hill Place

Higham by Rochester, Kent.

Saturday Eighteenth June 1859

My Dear Sir

Allow me to assure you that I have received your very kind letter with great pleasure, and that I hope – and confidently believe – that Sydney will do credit to your interest in him and care of him.

Believe me

My Dear Sir

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

The Rev. William Bell

  • 1. The Rev. William Bell, RN, co-principal of the naval school at North Grove House, Southsea, which CD’s son Sydney attended.