The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Period: 
1851-1860
Theme(s): 
editing
Household Words
charity
speeches

To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, 26 JUNE 1852

Text from facsimile in New Orleans Auction Galleries online catalogue, May 2016.

Tavistock House

Saturday Evening

Twenty Sixth June 1852

My Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your note – and also for the Legend.1 You may suppose that I was rather amazed to see it again, in association with you!! It is no disparagement to it to have rejected it. I thought it at the time very good of its kind, but it was not the Household Words kind.

Miss Burdett Coutts2 has mentioned to me her intention of becoming a subscriber to the Gardeners.3

Faithfully yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Tavistock House | Saturday evening | Twenty Sixth June 1852.

  • 1. Unidentified.
  • 2. Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts (1814-1906, Dictionary of National Biography), philanthropist and close friend of CD, with whom she collaborated on Urania Cottage and other social work projects.
  • 3. CD spoke at the Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution dinner on 14 June; see Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 696 and n.


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