Item Info

Accession Number: 87-178
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

          Friday Twenty Third July, 1858
My Dear Sir,
    I quite agree with you as to the proposal you communicate. It is altogether out of the question, and is, in the pecuniary part of it, ridiculous. 
  Will you tell me, for the information of an accursed correspondent, when the Pickwick Papers were first published.
              Faithfully Yours always
               Charles Dickens
Edward Chapman Esquire

MssDate: Friday Twenty Third July, 1858
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

The proposal is probably connected with Bradbury and Evans, printers of the Library edn, and their joint arrangement. The accursed correspondent refers to Mary Boyle,Countess of Cork and Orrery (1746–1840) and a British literary hostess.

Recipient: Chapman, Edward, 1804-1880
Provenance: Gift of Mrs.D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/6/55.

Bibliography:

Volume 8, p. 609, 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 C366e 1858-07-23
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author