The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
friends
To THE REV. W.H. BROOKFIELD,1 13 APRIL 1861
Envelope only, text from facsimile in Albion Auctions online catalogue, September 2017.
Date: PM London 13 April 1861.
Address: The Rev: W. Brookfield, |Eccleston Square, | S.W.
- 1. The Rev. William Henry Brookfield (1809-74; Dictionary of National Biography). At Trinity College, Cambridge, 1829-33, with Tennyson, Arthur Hallam and Thackeray; BA 1833; ordained curate 1834. Married Jane Olivia Elton 1841. Inspector of Schools 1848-61; Hon. Chaplain to the Queen 1860. Well-known preacher, public reader and witty conversationalist.