GAD'S HILL PLACE
Mr Cedric Dickens writes:
The only house owned and lived in by my Great-Grandfather,
Charles Dickens, needs our help if it is to be preserved and
restored. As a means of raising 3ome of the money required,
I have encouraged the Honorary General Secretary of the Dickens
Fellowship, Alan Watts, to write the 3tory of the house. The
book he has written will tell you what Gad's Hill Place was
like while Dickens was living there. It gives an insight into
the domestic arrangements and the daily routine so that you
can visualise Dickens as country gentleman, concerned about
horses and hay crops, as host, putting a shy guest at ease,
and aa novelist, writing at his desk or pondering the
development of his next monthly instalment while striding
down the country lanes with his dogs.
I am asking you to subscribe as generously as you can to
this noble cause and this book can be a reminder of your
generosity. As usual with my subscription offers, I am asking
for the money HOW and I will send you your copies signed,
numbered, and inscribed in OCTOBER in plenty of time for
you to give them away as Christmas presents.
I am reserving the low numbers for the larger donations,
but every donation of £15 or more will receive a book.
Please complete the slip below, and forward it to me with
your cheque
Mr Cedric Dickens
Stoneleigh
North Cadbury
Somerset BA22 7DJ
PLEASE RESERVE FOR ME COPIES OF THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
DICKENS AT GAD'S HILL by Alan S. Watts
with a Foreword by MONICA DICKENS
to be published in OCTOBER 1989
1I am enclosing a cheque payable to THE GAD'S HILL FUND
for the Sum of
2) I would like my copies to be inscribed as follows:
NAME (BLOCK LETTERS)
ADDRESS
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