Item Info

Accession Number: 87-402
Physical Description: [1] page
Material: paper
Transcription:

  Office of All the Year Round,
A WEEKLY JOURNAL CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS,
  No. 26, Wellington Street, Strand, London. W.C.
  Wednesday Twenty First June, 1865
My Dear Kent.
  If Mr. Norfolk, the gentleman of whom you tell me, really wishes to see me, I will make an appointment here for that purpose when I next come to town. I use the expression “really wishes to see me”, assuming him to understand from you that I never associate myself with any Company or Direction, and that it would merely be a waste of time on his part to have such an interview. I would not even give an opinion on the prospects of such a company as he projects, because I do not know how bright or how cloudy they may be. That your paper is capable of attracting a larger and still larger circulation, you know, and he must know, because you have the proofs of it in your accounts. Beyond your Paper, and you, and your indubitable capacity as an honorable, accomplished, and experienced Editor, I have no knowledge which would justify me in affecting to pronounce oracularly on the scheme, and therefore I should altogether decline doing so.
  Affectionately Yours Ever
  Charles Dickens
Charles Kent Esquire

MssDate: Wednesday Twenty First June 1865
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Kent, Charles, 1823-1902
Provenance: Benjamin, Mary 1965, Matlack Fund.

Bibliography:

Volume 11, pp. 63-4, The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey ; associate editors, W.J. Carlton … [et al.].

Country: Creation Place Note:No. 26, Wellington Street, Strand
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL K419 1865-06-21
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author