The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MR NEWCOMB,1 28 MAY 1863

MS John Sykes

Address: Mr Newcomb | Chatham

GAD’S HILL PLACE,
HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.
Thursday Twenty Eighth May, 1863.

Sir

    Be so good as to observe that for whatever is bought in your establishment, for which I hold myself responsible, I shall always send you an order in writing. This does not imply that I have had, or that I expect to have, the slightest cause of complaint in this respect; it is merely a way of doing business that I wish to observe in all cases, as being quite satisfactory

                    Faithfully Yours
                    CHARLES DICKENS

Mr Newcomb

• 1. Of Frederick & Henry Newcomb, outfitters, 101 High St, Chatham. CD had written to him on 17 Aug 1863 to order greatcoats for his sons Henry and Edward (Pilgrim Letters 10, p. 282).