The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1841-1850
Theme(s):
publishing
To MESSRS CHAPMAN & HALL,1 [7 APRIL 1844]
Text from facsimile on eBay, Jul 2024.
Address: Private | Messrs Chapman and Hall | 186 Strand | London
Date: PM 7 Apr 1844.2
- 1. Booksellers and publishers, of 186 Strand, since 1830; CD’s publishers from 1836 (beginning with Pickwick Papers). Edward Chapman (1804-80), son of a Richmond solicitor, was the more literary of the two partners; William Hall (1800-47) 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).
- 2. At the time CD was staying at Malton Abbey, Yorkshire, after attending the funeral of his late solicitor Charles Smithson (1804–44) on 5 Apr.