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The study at Gadshill. Across out the window is Dickens's Swiss-style Chalet. There Dickens wrote to the end of the sixth installment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood on the 8th of June, 1870, shortly before collapsing in the dining room.

This sofa was brought by the Gadshill staff into the dining room after dinner when Charles Dickens collpased. Dickens was lifted onto the sofa, where he died the next day, the 9th of June, 1870.

This is a view of the Gadshill estate during Dickens's time from the back. Today, Gadshill is a private day school.

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