The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Period: 
1841-1850
Theme(s): 
miscellaneous

To WILLIAM JOHN BELLEW ARCHER,1 [25 OCTOBER 1848]

Envelope only. 

Date: PM 25 Oct 1848

Address: Churchill, Bristol. Mourning envelope.2

  • 1. William John Bellew Archer (1806-72), Perpetual Curate of Churchill, Somerset, 1840-69; British Chaplain at Worms 1851-9; Vicar of Churchill 1870-2; clearly the previously unidentified "W. B. Archer", to whom CD wrote in 1838 (Pilgrim Letters 1, pp. 485-6).
  • 2. CD's sister Fanny died on 2 Sept 1848.