The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1836-1840
Theme(s):
publishing
editing
Bentley's Miscellany
To WILLIAM JOHN BELLEW ARCHER,1 [?LATE JULY 1838]
Replaces extract in Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 792.
Summary and extracts from Jarndyce catalogue, June 2016.
MS 3rd person 1 p.; dated Twickenham Park, Monday Evening.
Date: during CD's stay at Twickenham; presumably, from the postscript, shortly before his return to Doughty Street.
Presenting his compliments and begs to inform . . . that he has not yet refused any paper2 bearing the title he names. [In a postscript he adds that] He can address his communication, if he please, to 48 Doughty Street.
- 1. William John Bellew Archer (1806-72), Perpetual Curate of Churchill, Somerset, 1840-69; British Chaplain at Worms 1851-9; Vicar of Churchill 1870-2; clearly the previously unidentified "W. B. Archer", to whom CD wrote later in 1838 (Pilgrim Letters 1, pp. 485-6).
- 2. For publication in Bentley's Miscellany, which CD edited 1837-9.