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LETTER, MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY TO
LORD GODALMING.
‘1 October.
‘My Lord,

‘We are at all times only too happy to meet your
wishes. We beg, with regard to the desire of your
Lordship, expressed by Mr. Harker on your behalf, to
supply the following information concerning the sale and
purchase of No. 347, Piccadilly. The original vendors are
the executors of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield.
The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville, who
effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money
in notes ‘over the counter,’ if your Lordship will pardon
us using so vulgar an expression. Beyond this we know
nothing whatever of him.
‘We are, my Lord,
‘Your Lordship’s humble servants,
‘MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY.’
DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
2 October.—I placed a man in the corridor last night,
and told him to make an accurate note of any sound he
might hear from Renfield’s room, and gave him
instructions that if there should be anything strange he was
to call me. After dinner, when we had all gathered round

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