The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To ROBERT FLETCHER,1 22 MAY 1860

Text from facsimile on eBay, October 2007.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

Tuesday Twenty Second May 1860.

Dear Sir

I am obliged to you for your letter, but I beg to assure you that a Poem of 1100 lines2 is quite apart from the scope and limits of this Journal. And therefore, and because it is one of the rules of my life (enforced by its occupations) to give no opinion on Manuscripts that I have no chance of helping towards publication, I must reluctantly decline your proposal. The little poem I enclose opens very prettily, I think, but is something beyond the present range of its interesting writer.3

Robert Fletcher Esquire  

Faithfully Yours 

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Unidentified.
• 2. Untraced.
• 3. Unidentified.