The Charles Dickens Letters Project

 To J. S. LE FANU,1 29 SEPTEMBER 1869

Text from reproduction in Bloomsbury Auction catalogue, Nov. 2007.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Wednesday Twenty Ninth September 1869

Dear Sir

I had best let you know that I have safely received your MS2 and have sent it to the printer. I tried to read it in your writing, but could not succeed without devoting more time to the task than I could spare.

J. S. Le Fanu Esquire

Faithfully Yours

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73; Dictionary of National Biography), novelist and journalist; born in Ireland, of Huguenot extraction; great-nephew of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; joined staff of Dublin University Magazine 1837; regular contributor (editor and proprietor 1869-72); founded the Dublin Evening Mail 1839. After his wife’s death 1858, devoted himself to novel-writing; of his 16 novels, Uncle Silas, 1864, is the best known.
• 2. “Green Tea”, All the Year Round, four instalments, 23 Oct-13 Nov 69, N.S.II, 501-72. See also To Le Fanu, 24 November & n.