The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Period: 
1851-1860
Theme(s): 
finances

To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, 31 AUGUST 1860

Text from facsimile on eBay, Dec 2020.

GAD'S HILL PLACE,
HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.
Friday Thirty First August, 1860.

My Dear Sir

I beg to send you the cheque.1

        Faithfully Yours alwys

        CHARLES DICKENS

  • 1. The cheque in question was for one of two possible transactions: either to Brown, Buckley & Co, East India brokers, in the amount of £2.3s.6d, on behalf of CD's son Walter (who was then in Bengal), or to the chiropodist Mark Wolff, for 6 guineas (MS Messrs Coutts).