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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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Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship), DickensLetters.com.

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1861-1870

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public readings

social engagements

To MESSRS WILLIAM BANTING & SONS,1 30 JANUARY 1866

MS David Harrison.

GAD’S HILL PLACE
HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.
Saturday Thirtieth January 1868.

Mr Charles Dickens will feel obliged by Messrs. Banting sending a card to view the Furnished house in Half Moon Street,2 if it be to [?let]3 for four months — say from the 10[th] of February to the end of the first we[ek] in June.4 He also begs to know t[he] terms.

1. William Banting & Sons, cabinet makers and undertakers, 9 Park Lane, Grosvenor Square and 27 St James's, Piccadilly.
2. Half Moon Street runs between Curzon Street and Piccadilly.
3. A strip has been cut off the right-hand side of the page.
4. CD did not rent this property in Half Moon Street; instead he leased 6 Southwick Place, Hyde Park, from 26 February to 10 June, for the convenience of his London and Provincial series of readings, and for the benefit of his daughter Mamie during the London Season.