The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
friends
To JANE OCTAVIA BROOKFIELD,1 [20 FEBRUARY 1863]
Envelope only, text from facsimile in Albion Auctions online catalogue, September 2017.
Date: PM London 20 February 1863.
Address: Mrs. Brookfield | 6 Sydney Place | Onslow Square | S.W.
- 1. Jane Octavia Brookfield (1821-96), née Elton, novelist, niece of the Whig historian Henry Hallam's wife. Married well-known preacher, public reader and witty conversationalist Rev. William Henry Brookfield (1809-74). Close friend of W.M. Thackeray 1846-51.