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Accession Number: 89-603
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Office of All the Year Round

Monday Sixteenth May 1859

My Dear Georgy.

I have bought Household Words and its stock, for £3,550.

The stock is worth, about £1600; leaving the price at about--at the very most--£2,000; consequently, as I only, in reality, pay a fourth, I have bought it for £500.

Tomorrow morning we advertize in all the papers, "that the last No. of Household Words will be published on the 28th. of May; after which time that publication will be merged into All the Year Round."

Joyce was the bidder for the Whitefriars Gang; and all the witnesses agree that Arthur covered himself with glory. He affected to relate anecdotes to the said Joyce and to Shirley Brooks, and to F Evans, and then bid--as it were, acidentally--to the great terror and confusion of all the room.

We had also arranged, at a previous consultation, that Fredk. Chapman should bid against him up to a certain point; the consequence of which feint, was, that Nobody could make out what Arthur was bidding for at all, or why he was there.

This note is to the dear girls of course--and to Plornish--who (I have no doubt) will be excited on the subject.

In great haste

Ever affecy

CD.

MssDate: Monday Sixteenth May 1859
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Hogarth, Georgina (1827-1917)
Provenance: David J. Holmes 11/14/89

Bibliography:

 The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Nine, 1859-1861. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 65.

Country: Creation Place Note:Office of All the Year Round
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Creation Year: 1859
Call Number: DL H678g2 1859-05-16
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author