The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To JOHN MURRAY,1 6 MARCH 1844

Replaces mention—derived from Autograph Prices Current, 1919–21, which carries the wrong date (5 Mar)—in Pilgrim Letters 4, p. 63.
MS Daniel Moss

Devonshire Terrace.
Sixth March 1844.

My Dear Sir.

   Let me return you very many thanks for your great courtesy in the matter of the Guide Books.2 I think of roaming into “foreign parts” before the Summer is out;CD departed for Genoa, via Paris and Marseille, on 2 July 1844. but I shall see you, several times I hope, before I go.

    Believe me

      Faithfully Yours

        CHARLES DICKENS

John Murray Esquire

• 1. John Murray III (1808-92; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), publisher; eldest son of John Murray II, whom he succeeded as head of the firm in 1843.
• 2. In 1836 Murray initiated the publisher’s series of popular continental guide books, which included the recently issued Murray’s Hand-Book for Travellers in France (1843) and Murray’s Hand-Book for Travellers in Central Italy, Including the Papal States, Rome, and Etruria (1843).