The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
friends
To THE REV. W.H. BROOKFIELD,1 [13 APRIL 1863]
Envelope only, text from facsimile in Albion Auctions online catalogue, September 2017.
Date: PM Roc[hester] 13 April 1863.
Address: The Rev: W. Brookfield |30 Brompton Square |London | S.W.
- 1. The Rev. William Henry Brookfield (1809-74; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1829-33, with Tennyson, Arthur Hallam and Thackeray; BA 1833; ordained curate 1834. Married Jane Octavia Elton 1841. Inspector of Schools 1848-61; Hon. Chaplain to the Queen 1860. Well-known preacher, public reader and witty conversationalist.