Item Info

Accession Number: 87-398
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

               Tavistock House, London. W.C.
                       Twenty Third January 1858.
Sir.
        The service you ask of me, is one I cannot possibly render you. So many similar letters are constantly addressed to me, that unless I invariably made a rule of reading no MSS for the purpose of giving abstract opinions on their merits, I could discharge no other avocation in life. I must limit myself to the expression of my regret that your verses are not suitable to Household Words-the only miscelaneous publication over which I have control.
                                                                                                                         Your faithful Servant
                                                                                                                             Charles Dickens
William Kelly Esquire                                                                 

MssDate: Twenty Third January 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

The recipient may be the Irish emigrant William Kelly  (1791-1855) who wrote of his travels to California and Victoria.

Recipient: Kelly, William, 1791-1855
Provenance: Hammill & Barker 1967, Benoliel Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, pp. 509, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey; associate editors, W.J. Carlton…[et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:Tavistock House
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL K299 1858-01-23
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author