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Dickens, Charles. To [addressee], [date of letter]. Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship). [URL of individual letter], [date of access].

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Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship), DickensLetters.com.

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1861-1870

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All the Year Round

To C. A. COLE,1 10 MAY 1862

MS Phillip Pirages.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Saturday Tenth May 1862

My Dear Cole.

I am very sorry that I cannot have the pleasure of accepting this little paper, but it really is not suitable for our purpose here. If it had come a little earlier, I would have taken it, because of its hitting the nick of time. But we are always a fortnight ahead, and it would be too late. Pray thank the authoress2 for me.

Charles Cole Esquire

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Presumably Charles Augustus Cole (1819-87), clerk in the Public Record Office; had appeared in The Merry Wives and Every Man in His Humour with the amateurs (1848); later contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round: see Pilgrim Letters 5, p.300n.
2. Neither authoress nor paper identified.