The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To FELIX JOYCE,1 17 NOVEMBER 1850

Facsimile in Philip Weiss Auctions online catalogue, Oct 2013.

Knebworth2 Sunday

Seventeenth November 1850

My Dear Mr Joyce.

By the “three copies in Morocco”,3 I meant (and ought to have explained that I meant) three of our usual copies that are not in cloth. – Not specially bound for me, but such as are commonly bound. Fifteen copies in all.

                        Faithfully Yours

                        CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Felix Joyce (1800-65), the accountant at CD's publishers Bradbury & Evans.
• 2. The home of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-73; Dictionary of National Biography), to which CD had travelled, to mount performances of Every Man in His Humour (20-22 Nov).
• 3. Presumably of David Copperfield (published by Bradbury & Evans), which completed its run in monthly parts in Nov 1850.