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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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1841-1850

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publishing

To MESSRS CHAPMAN & HALL,1 [?1845]

Envelope only.

Text from facsimile in Addison & Sarove Auctioneers online catalogue, Aug 2021.
Address: Wait2 | Messrs Chapman & Hall | 186 Strand
Date: Signature suggests 1845.

1. Booksellers and publishers, of 186 Strand, since 1830; CD’s publishers from 1836. Edward Chapman (1804-80), son of a Richmond solicitor, was the more literary of the two partners; William Hall (?1801-47) was more concerned with business arrangements. For a history of the firm, see Arthur Waugh, A Hundred Years of Publishing: Being the Story of Chapman & Hall (London: Chapman & Hall, 1930).
2. An instruction to the bearer to wait for a reply; underlined twice.