The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To E.H. MALCOLM,1 5 APRIL 1850 

MS private.

Devonshire Terrace

Fifth April 1850. 

Sir.

            In reply to your very obliging letter, I beg to say that I shall be happy to accept your paper2, if3 I should consider it adapted to the purpose you are so kind as to contemplate. The subject I think a very good one, but I need not say that I am not in a condition to form any definite opinion of the manner in which you treat it.

                        Yours faithfully and obliged

                        CHARLES DICKENS

E.H. Malcolm Esquire

• 1. A writer on popular amusements such as theatres and circuses, who published pieces in Tegg's London Magazine of Knowledge and Amusement, including such Boz-like sketches as "London Coffee-Houses and their Customers" (1843).
• 2. Presumably a proposed contribution to Household Words, which began to appear in March 1850.
• 3. Doubly underlined.