One page, 90 x 112mm (uneven). Matted and framed, unexamined out of frame.

Dickens thanks a correspondent for a gift of orange brandy, in full: “…A thousand thanks for the Orange Brandy. I found it in excellent condition, and wonderfully good. The recipe has been acted upon, and two gallons (made with pious adherence to it) are ripening in the chalk cellar under Falstaff’s ground. Believe me always. Very faithfully yours / Charles Dickens.”  Falstaff’s ground is a reference to his Gad's Hill home, the location where Falstaff commits the robbery in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1.