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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Gad's Hill Place letterhead, September 6, 1866. Handwritten letter to Messrs. Essell Knight and Arnold. In full: "Allow me to thank you for your letter of yesterday's date. The lime trees will probably be planted about a month hence. I will take care that Mr. Langford has good notice of my gardener's being ready for the work." In fine condition.
This letter does not appear in the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens. However, two letters by Dickens written on the September 4, 1866, are recorded, the first also to Messrs. Essell Knight and Arnold, Solicitors and Clerks to the Rochester Magistrates, forwarding a letter to be laid before the Board at their meeting at Gravesend on 5th September, and the second being the letter to the Board of Commissioners or Trustees of Roads. In that letter, Dickens requests permission to plant a row of lime trees on the side of the high road along the whole wall frontage of his property at Gad's Hill, stating: 'I trust you may be of opinion that the road could sustain no damage from being so ornamented, and that the appearance of the trees would be refreshing and pleasant to passers by.' Evidently, this request by Dickens was approved.
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