The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD,1 25 MARCH 1861

Text from digitised facsimile in Crouse Autograph Collection website, 2002.

3 Hanover Terrace, Regents Park

Monday Twenty Fifth March 1861

Dear Mr. Hollingshead

I shall be at the office on Wednesday from half past 10 until 1. If you can make it convenient to favour me with a call, I shall be glad to advise with you concerning the Brough2 Fund dinner.

Faithfully yours always

CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. See last.
• 2. Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-60; Dictionary of National Biography), writer: see Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 680n and Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 582n. He had died in Manchester on 26 June 60; CD was a trustee of the Fund for Brough’s family and £690 was raised for Mrs Brough and her children from four dramatic performances; an interim balance sheet was prepared for the Trustees, 25 Mar 61: see Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 277 and n. No doubt the dinner was part of the fund-raising programme.