The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1841-1850
Theme(s):
publishing
To MESSRS CHAPMAN & HALL1, [19 SEPTEMBER 1841]
Envelope only, text from facsimile in Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood online catalogue, March 2015.
Date: PM 19 September 1841.
Address: Free| Private | Messrs. Chapman and Hall | 186 Strand | London.
- 1. Booksellers and publishers, of 186 Strand, since 1830; CD’s publishers from 1836. Edward Chapman (1804-80), son of a Richmond solicitor, was the more literary of the two partners; William Hall (?1801-47) was more concerned with business arrangements. For a history of the firm, see Arthur Waugh, A Hundred Years of Publishing: Being the Story of Chapman & Hall, (London: Chapman & Hall, 1930).