Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens, written from Gads Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Saturday, 7 September. One page, approximately , on his distinctive printed Gads Hill Place stationery.
In this courteous social letter, Dickens presents his compliments and thanks the recipient for a “very obliging note and its enclosure,” adding that he had already read the enclosed letter “with much pleasure and a hearty desire to respond to its spirit.” The note reflects Dickens’s characteristic warmth and polished tone in personal correspondence from his later years.
Gads Hill Place, acquired by Dickens in 1856, was the home most closely associated with his final period of life and literary activity, and letters written from this address are especially desirable for their strong biographical association.
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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