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1861-1870

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To MR FINDEN,1 2 APRIL 1866

Text from Stockholm Auktionsverk catalogue, 2007; addressed Mr. Finden; dated Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, 2 April 1866

Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Mr. Finden, and begs to say that Mr. Finden is at perfect liberty to insert his name in the list of Stewards for the next dinner in aid of the Newspaper fund.2

1. Unidentified.
2. The Newspaper Press Fund, founded June 1858 by the Parliamentary reporters of London newspapers, to relieve members or families of deceased members of the Fund: see To Henry Warren, 3 Jan 61. The Fund Secretary, Henry George Warren, was now based at 6 Beaufort Buildings, Strand.