The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To T. R. EELES,1 4 JUNE 1857

MS Huntington Library.

Gad’s Hill Place, Higham, Kent. | Fourth June 1857

Dear Mr. Eeles

I send you enclosed, an order on Bradbury and Evans for 12 Little Dorrits.2 Will you, with all convenient dispatch, half-bind 9 in my favorite red with gilt leaves, and bind the remaining 3 in any elegant and substantial way you like. When done, please send them to the Household Words office with “Books to await Mr. Dickens” written outside.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Thomas Robert Eeles, bookbinder of 22 Cursitor Street. In 1851 he had provided the dummy books for CD’s library (Pilgrim Letters 6, pp. 524-5 & nn, 851); the business continued to work for CD at least to 1866 (Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 163).
• 2. The final double No. of Little Dorrit, for June, was published 30 May 57. CD had already asked for presentation copies to be bound (Pilgrim Letters 8, pp. 327, 335).