Item Info

Accession Number: 87-1601
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

 Office of All the Year Round,

Wednesday Twenty Eighth May 1862

My Dear Leech.

I wouldn’t send vaguely to the Editors of papers and periodicals, and their friends, for this reason—that it would involved you in much the same difficulties as a Private View. For example, the Sunday Times takes Dobb, Hobbs, and Snobs, and leaves out Bobbs. And you know Bobbs, and Bobbs knows Hobbs, and Bobbs writes to you to know why Hobbs got in, when he (Bobbs) didn’t? You then either answer Hobbs and wish yourself dead and buried, or you don’t answer Hobbs, and he becomes such an infernal nuisance in consequence, that you wish him dead and buried.

Now, I would have no private view whatever—for any body. I would send cards to all respectable Editors (in the case of Daily Editors at all events, for 2), and I would open on a certain day at a certain hour, and there you have beginning and end.

I will get Charley Collins to do an article for these pages, and I will go over the Proof, and put in any thing that I see wanting.

Ever Faithfully

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MssDate: Wednesday Twenty Eighth May 1862
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

The pages to which Dickens refers are from "Mr. Leech's Gallery", AYR 5 July 62, VII, 390. (Pilgrim Vol. 10, p. 87).

Recipient: Leech, John, 1817-1864
Provenance: Benoliel, Mrs. D. Jacques 12/6/54

Bibliography:

 The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Ten, 1862-1864. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, p. 87.

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

Creation Year: 1862
Call Number: DL L516j 1862-05-28
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author