The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MISS J.E. HITCHCOCK,1 24 JANUARY 1863

Text from facsimile (in the hand of Georgina Hogarth) in Kolle Autographs online catalogue, May 2020.

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

Saturday January 24th 1863

Mr Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Miss JE.2 Hitchcock and requests to inform her that his vote for the Royal Hospital for Incurables has been long engaged3 —

• 1. Unidentified.
• 2. Thus in MS.
• 3. Later Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability; at West Hill, Putney, since 1863. CD was Vice-President and Life Subscriber to the Hospital since 1856, and had one vote at the annual election of applicants. One of Lady Westmorland’s daughters had applied to CD for his vote in 1863; see Pilgrim Letters 10, pp. 274-5.