CHARLES DICKENS - PURCHASE OF 160 BOTTLES OF 1834 PORT

Check Drawn on Coutts Bank - 6 March 1865 - for 142 pounds 18 shillings & 10 pence Made out to John Humphrey (The Lord Mayor of London) In a letter "Your brother Mr. William Humphrey has informed me that you will be so very kind as to bid for me at the sale of wine tomorrow.... 'I shall be very glad to lay out from 100 to 150 pounds on the '34 Port taking the smaller range if it should go at very high prices and the larger if it should go at eight or nine guineas per dozen.'