The Charles Dickens Letters Project

 To DORA HOSKYNS,1 17 SEPTEMBER 1868

Text from facsimile on the website of John Wilson Manuscripts Ltd. Address: Miss2 Dora Hoskyns | Cranford Hall | Kettering.3  

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Thursday Seventeenth September 1868

Dear Madam

I sincerely regret that I cannot have the pleasure of accepting the enclosed verses. But they are really unsuitable to these pages.

Faithfully Yours

 CHARLES DICKENS

Miss4 Dora Hoskyns

• 1. Mrs Dorothea (Dora) Ann Eliza Hoskyns (née Robinson), c.1839-1901; daughter of the Rev. George Stamp Robinson Bt, married Oct 1865 (Sir) Anthony Riley Hoskyns, RN (1828-1901), later G.C.B. and Admiral R.N. Mrs Hoskyns contributed “Old Harvest-Homes” to All the Year Round, 10 Aug 67, XVIII, 164-8.
• 2. Thus in MS.
• 3. Home of Mrs Hoskyns’s father, the Rev. George Stamp Robinson, seventh Baronet (1797-1873).
• 4. Thus in MS.