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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| Language: | English |
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| Origin: | England, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool |
| Date: | Thursday 15 October 1868 |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | 180 x 227 mm, folded in half for writing, un-ruled |
| Contents: | Letter from Charles Dickens to Henry Fielding Dickens on his entering Trinity Hall |
| Script: | Cursive |
| Provenance: | Address given in Dickens’s hand as the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool (embossed letterhead ‘Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent’ crossed through); Mr Christopher Charles Dickens (Trinity Hall 1957); his gift to Trinity Hall. |
| Notes: | Sir Henry Fielding Dickens K.C., (1849 – 1933) sixth son of Charles Dickens, read Mathematics at Trinity Hall (1868 -1872); he was known as Henry Fielding while student. He was called to the Bar in 1873 and had a distinguished legal career. |
| Bibliography: | The Letters of Charles Dickens. M. House, G. Storey and K. Tillotson, gen. eds. Vol. 12, 1868 – 1870, G. Storey, ed. (2002) pp. 201 - 202 |
| View digitised copy: | Letter from Charles Dickens to his son, Henry Fielding Dickens (THPP/DIC) |
| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
