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Accession Number: 87-1642
Physical Description: [3] pages
Material: paper
Transcription:

                1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate
                                February 16th. 1840.
Dear Mr. Overs.
                I have read your Legend of Canterbury with great interest and pleasure. It would have been a most creditable performance to anybody – it is strikingly and remarkably so to you, who write under so many disadvantages – and if I had the control of any Magazine, I would publish it immediately.
                It has occurred to me that as this Story possesses a local as well as a general interest, it would be excellently adapted to a Kentish Magazine. Now although there is no such thing in existence (that I know of) at this moment, I have reason to believe that there soon will be, as a gentleman who has such a periodical in contemplation wrote to me about it a few weeks since. I strongly recommend you to write to this gentleman yourself – to mention me in any way you please – and to say that you will be happy to send him your tale for perusal, if he will permit you. His address is “H. G. Adams Esquire – J Bryant Esquire’s Parsonage House – Chatham”. I think it will be an acquisition to him, and that you will be mutually obliged to each other.
                I don’t know what the resources of this local magazine may afford – very little, I dare say – but the gentleman of whom I speak, cannot be offended by your asking the question and I have no doubt will return you a straight forward answer. I would lose no time, but write to him immediately, and I again empower you to make the fullest use of my poor recommendation.
                Very faithfully Yours
                          Charles Dickens
Mr. J. A. Overs.

MssDate: February 16th 1840
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Overs, John A., 1808-1844
Provenance: Bequest of William M. Elkins, 8/5/47.

Bibliography:

Volume 2, p. 30, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate Regents Park
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL Ov2 1840-02-16
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author