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To DAVID LANE PERKINS,1 24 SEPTEMBER 1857

Replaces extract in Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 453.
Text from facsimile on eBay, Nov 2024.
Address: David L. Perkins Esquire | Washington City | District of Columbia | U.S. of America

Gad’s Hill Place, Higham, by Rochester
Twenty Fourth September 1857

Sir.

Your letter has just now been forwarded to me at my house in the country. I comply with your request with much pleasure, and send you this brief autograph accordingly.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

David L. Perkins Esquire.

1. David Lane Perkins (1838-98), an autograph collector; son of a New Hampshire teacher. Private secretary to Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas 1858–9, and clerk in the US Treasury Department during the American Civil War.