The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MESSRS JOHN D. THORNELY & SON,1 5 AUGUST 1845

MS Huntington Library.

1 Devonshire Terrace | York Gate Regents Park.

Fifth August 1845.

Gentlemen.

I beg to acknowledge the safe receipt of your enclosure, on behalf of our friend Mr. Colden of New York,2 of a bank note for Twenty Pounds, No. 55944.

Messrs. John D. Thornely & Son.

Your faithful Servant

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Merchants, Brunswick Buildings, 11 Brunswick Street, Liverpool.
• 2. David Cadwallader Colden (1797-1850), American lawyer and philanthropist: see further Pilgrim Letters 3, p. 30n. CD had first met him in England, summer 1840. Colden, in London, May 45, and still there in July (Pilgrim Letters 4, pp. 310, 334), presumably could draw on Thornely’s and used CD as a secure address.