The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To MESSRS CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD,1 26 OCTOBER 1837

after MS Messrs Lea & Febiger add Address (MS, envelope only, Profiles in History, California, 2004): Messrs Carey and Company / Philadelphia / care of Mr. John Miller.2

• 1. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia publishers and booksellers; originally Carey & Carey, later Lea & Blanchard (see To Messrs Lea & Blanchard, 13 February 1842). They published all CD’s major books from Sketches by Boz to David Copperfield: see further Pilgrim Letters 1, pp. 322-3nn. The letter concerns payments to CD by the firm and proposals for the transmission of early proofs of future works.
• 2. John Miller, bookseller and publisher of 13 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden; Carey, Lea & Blanchard’s London agent until 1861.