The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To WILLIAM CLOWES,1 18 MAY 1864

MS Bonhams Auction on-line catalogue, 2009.

57 Gloucester Place, Hyde Park Gardens2

Wednesday Eighteenth May 1864

Dear Sir.

The enclosed requisition3 will need 20 signatures, and will be signed by the best names. If you approve of it, will you authorize me to add your name to it, and will you kindly return it to me?

William Clowes Esquire

Faithfully Yours

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. William Clowes (1807-83; Dictionary of National Biography), son of William Clowes (1779-1847; Dictionary of National Biography), of William Clowes & Sons, printers: see Pilgrim Letters Supplement XIII, D (105), 2009, p. 226: To William Clowes, 21 May 64, n.1.
• 2. Written on Gad’s Hill headed paper.
• 3. Presumably CD’s letter to Michael Bass (1799-1884; Dictionary of National Biography), Liberal MP, in support of his Bill for the Suppression of Street Music: see Pilgrim Letters 10, pp. 388 & n, 389 & nn.