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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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To MESSRS BANTING AND SONS,1 3 NOVEMBER 1855

MS Kotte Autographs, Germany.

Mr. Charles Dickens will be punctual in his attendance on the mournful occasion2 to which the letter of Messrs. Banting and Sons refers.

1. William Banting & Sons, 9 Park Lane, Grosvenor Square and 27 St James’s, Piccadilly, undertakers.
2. Dr William Brown, husband of Miss Coutts’s companion, Hannah (née Meredith), had died suddenly, 23 Oct, when at Montpellier with Miss Coutts and his wife. CD, then staying in Paris, undertook the arrangements for Dr Brown’s burial at St Stephen’s, Rochester Row (7 Nov), returning to London for the purpose (Pilgrim Letters 7, pp. 727-35 & nn). CD’s is a formal response to the firm after formal notification.