The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To GEORGE ROBERT GLEIG,1 3 JULY 1861

MS Private

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Wednesday Third July 1861.

My Dear Gleig,

I am always delighted when I can find promise in a new aspirant.2 Pray do me the favor to address the Ghost story to me personally, here. You may rely upon my reading it myself and giving it my best and earliest attention.

Faithfully Yours always

CHARLES DICKENS

The Rev. G.R. Gleig 

• 1. George Robert Gleig (1796-1888), author and Chaplain-General of the armed forces, 1844-75. His History of the British Empire in India, 1830-5, and Story of the Battle of Waterloo, 1848, were in the Gad's Hill library at CD's death.
• 2. CD used Gleig as an intermediary to communicate with Amelia Edwards, who contributed ‘Picking up Terrible Company’ to ‘Tom Tiddler's Ground’. See Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 455 (To Gleig, 16 September 1861).