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Dickens, Charles. To [addressee], [date of letter]. Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship). [URL of individual letter], [date of access].

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1861-1870

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To JOSEPH LEYLAND,1 20 JANUARY 1867

MS Huntington Library. Address: J. Leyland Esqre. | Williamson Square | Liverpool. PM Liverpool 20 JA 67.

GAD’S HILL PLACE | HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Adelphi Hotel Liverpool2

Twentieth January 1867

Sir

I beg you to accept my cordial thanks for your very obliging note and its accompanying volume of your adventures in South Africa.3 I have a passion for books of travel, and it will not be long before I become closely acquainted with yours.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

J. Leyland Esquire

1. Joseph Leyland, of 23 Williamson Square, Liverpool.
2. CD was on his Jan-May 1867 reading tour: he had read in Liverpool, 17, 18, 19 January.
3. Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa; Including a Journey to Lake Ngami, and Rambles in Honduras, London & Liverpool, 1866.