Lot 2810
Dickens, Charles. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Brookfield, with signature in lower left-hand corner, printed initials "C.D." on flap. Penny red stamp, postmark [18]63; envelope addressed to the Rev. W.H. Brookfield, with monogram in lower left-hand corner, laid down. Penny red stamp, postmark [18]61; partial envelope front in the same hand, addressed to the same, without signature. Postmark [18]63. All in blue ink. (3)
The Rev. William Henry Brookfield (1809 - 74) became a friend of Alfred, Lord Tennyson while at Trinity College, Cambridge; the poet wrote a sonnet on his death. Mrs. Brookfield was born Jane Octavia Elton, daughter of the sixth baronet, a niece of Henry Hallam, and the model for Amelia in Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
