The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1851-1860
Theme(s):
education
family
To THE REV. WILLIAM BELL,118 JUNE 1859
Facsimile in Fraser’s Autographs online catalogue, June 2014
Gad’s Hill Place
Higham by Rochester, Kent.
Saturday Eighteenth June 1859
My Dear Sir
Allow me to assure you that I have received your very kind letter with great pleasure, and that I hope – and confidently believe – that Sydney will do credit to your interest in him and care of him.
Believe me
My Dear Sir
Faithfully Yours
CHARLES DICKENS
- 1. The Rev. William Bell, RN, co-principal of the naval school at North Grove House, Southsea, which CD’s son Sydney attended.