The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT,1 [?1836] 

MS private.

Date: "1836" in another hand.

1836

Furnivals Inn.

Thursday Morning 

Sir.2

            I cannot send you back any copy3 now, for there is very little ready, and what there is, will take me some time to get together. I will forward you some more tomorrow.

                                    Yours

                                                CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Possibly CD's publisher John Macrone (1809-37; Dictionary of National Biography). See To Catherine Hogarth, 25 Nov 1835: “Macrone has urged me most imperatively and pressingly to ‘get on’.” (Pilgrim Letters 1 p. 97).
• 2. CD's use of the single word "Sir" as the form of address might indicate his annoyance with the addressee on being pressured to provide copy. By 1836 he was usually addressing his publisher as "My Dear Macrone".
• 3. Unidentified.