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To LIEUT-COLONEL EDWARD BRUCE HAMLEY,1

28 FEBRUARY 1870

Text from facsimile in University Archives online catalogue, June 2016

5 Hyde Park Place W2

Monday Twenty Eighth February

1870

My Dear Colonel Hamley

I shall be delighted to dine with you at the Army and Navy,3 on Friday the 11th March.

Believe me

Faithfully Yours alwys

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Edward Bruce Hamley (1824-93; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), soldier and writer. Brevet Lieut.-Col RA 1855; Professor of Military History, Sandhurst 1859-64; Commandant 1870-77; Major-Gen. 1879; KCMG 1880. Published military works; essays on Voltaire and Carlyle; and contributed to Fraser's and Blackwood's Magazine, including 'Remonstrance with Dickens' (Blackwood's 81 [Apr 1857]: 490).
2. CD had rented 5 Hyde Park Place from Thomas Milner Gibson, early January-early June 1870.
3. The Army and Navy Club, on Pall Mall.