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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

To WILLIAM HENRY FRENCH,1 17 MARCH 1870

MS University of Rhode Island Library, Special Collections.

GAD’S HILL PLACE, | HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Thursday Seventeenth March 1870

Sir

(a) In reply to your obliging letter, I beg to inform you that I have already conceded the sole copyright of my new book for translation in Germany, to Dr. Lehmann of Hamburg.(a)2

William Henry French Esqre.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

1. William Henry French (1842-99), owner of the publishing company Johann Friedrich Hartknoch (1868-79); son of the artist and engraver William French (1815-98), who worked for the Leipzig publisher and engraver Albert Henry Payne.
2. CD had agreed in Nov 1869 with Emil Lehmann the right of translating Edwin Drood into German (Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 441); it was published by Tauchnitz, who also published the English language edition for sale on the Continent only (Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 492).