The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, 16 DECEMBER 1867 

Replaces extract in Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 514. 

Text from facsimile in Bloomsbury Auctions online catalogue, March 2017. 

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND, 

Dec. 16. 1867

Mr. Charles Dickens begs to thank the writer of the paper entitled 

“A Day in the Desert”1 

for having done him the favor to offer it as a contribution to these pages. He much regrets, however, that it is not suited to the requirements of All the Year Round.

The manuscript will be returned under cover, if applied for as above.2 

• 1. Unidentified.
• 2. The note in Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 514, 'Clearly sent by one of the Office staff', is incorrect.