The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MRS BROOKFIELD,1 29 MAY 1866

Extract in Bloomsbury Book Auctions, May 2007; MS 2 pp.; addressed Mrs Brookfield; dated 6 Southwick Place2 (on Gad’s Hill headed paper), Tuesday, 29 May 66.

It most unfortunately happens that we are engaged for every day you mention, and that indeed I am engaged for every day until we go back to Gad’s Hill. But I shall look for an opportunity of getting my recompense at Gad’s Hill, and of persuading you and Brookfield to come and look at the Kentish hops.

• 1. Jane Octavia Brookfield, née Elton (1821-96); married (1841) the Rev. William Henry Brookfield (1809-74; Dictionary of National Biography). CD had met her in Lausanne, July 46 (Vol. IV, pp. 591-2): see further Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 47nn.
• 2. CD had taken 6 Southwick Place, Hyde Park, from 26 Feb to mid June, for the convenience of his London and Provincial series of readings (Pilgrim Letters 9, Appx A) and for the benefit of Mamie during the London Season.