Item Info

Accession Number: 87-1600
Physical Description: [1] page
Transcription:

Office of All the Year Round,

Monday, Nineteenth May 1862

My Dear Leech. I think Egg's suggestion a sound one. Therefore I have taken out the words "at a reasonable cost". As the address stands, I think it just hits the purpose and could not well be better--though I say it as shouldn't.

I shall come up to see how you get on, before you are quite floored.

Ever Faithfully

CD.

MssDate: Monday Nineteenth May 1862
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

CD refers to the address, advertising Leech's exhibition of oil sketches at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. CD also refers to a draft, written on a sheet of Leech's writing-paper, that reads "-which have been reproduced (much enlarged) on canvas by an ingenious new process, and | Painted in OIl | By Mr. Leech | The exhibition will open in the course of the month of May. Admission One Shilling" The exhibition in fact opened on Mon 2 June" (Pilgrim vol. 10 pp. 85-86).

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. 85.

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

Creation Year: 1862
Call Number: DL L516j 1862-05-19
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author