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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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1841-1850

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To MESSRS CHAPMAN & HALL1, [19 SEPTEMBER 1841]

Envelope only, text from facsimile in Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood online catalogue, March 2015.

Date: PM 19 September 1841.

Address: Free| Private | Messrs. Chapman and Hall | 186 Strand | London.

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).