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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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1861-1870

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All the Year Round

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To MRS HENNING,1 1 JUNE 1866

Replaces extract in Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 257.

MS Daniel Ryan, November 2006.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Friday First June 1866

Madam

I regret to assure you that my ability to be useful to the incredible numbers of my unknown correspondents, halts very—very—far short of my inclination. I can really do absolutely nothing for your husband’s compositions, beyond myself reading any that you may offer for insertion in these pages, honestly and attentively, and with a sincere desire to make some of them profitable to him, if I can. But I need scarcely tell you that I can only have that satisfaction in the event of their being suitable to the requirements of this Journal.

Mrs. Henning.

Madam | Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Wife of John Henning, whose contribution offered to All the Year Round CD declined, 25 June 66: see p. 217.