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1861-1870

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To MESSRS SEAGROVE & CO,1 28 JULY 1866

Text from facsimile in Bloomsbury Auctions online catalogue, December 2016.

GAD'S HILL PLACE,

HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Twenty Eighth July, 1866

Messrs. Seagrove and Compy.

Please to supply my son Mr. Sydney Smith Dickens R.N.2 with such articles as he finds necessary for his present outfit, and to charge the same to me.

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Edwin Augustus Seagrove (1817-80), Royal naval and military outfitter, 22 and 23 The Hard, Portsea. Incorrectly identified as "Edward" in Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 233n.
2. Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847-72), CD’s seventh child (affectionately known as 'the Admiral'). He was then serving as a Midshipman aboard HMS Bristol; see To Chapman & Hall, Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 233.