- Brief description
- Letter from Charles Dickens to Chapman & Hall, 9 June 1837
- Label
- Charles Dickens writes to his publishers from 48 Doughty Street about copyright and publishing matters; namely the Macrone dispute over republishing 'Sketches by Boz' and an advertisement Dickens plans to put out declaring the new issue will be without his sanction. Dickens acknowledges that his current publishing arrangements are tangled. In a letter to Forster a few days later (14/06/1837), Dickens worries about an earlier agreement with Bentley for a second novel. ‘I fear in my desire to avoid present vexations, I have laid up a bitter store for the future.’
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- A868
- Object type
- letter
- Production person
- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 9 June 1837
- Extent
- Single letter
- Inscription content
- Doughty Street
Friday morning
Dr Sirs,
I enclose a short address, and a shorter advertisement. If you have any suggestion to make relative to either, I shall be at home all day.
With reference to the advertisement I leave its appearance or non-appearance at the present moment entirely to you. I have been considering the matter and really see no reason for its coming out now, which appears to me to have rather a tendency to weaken its effect, than to do us any good. The only reason for putting it forth at this instant was our apprehension of Macrone’s publishing the Sketches in parts. It seems to me that the necessity for the advertisement was removed with this apprehension.
However, it is a point of business, and I leave it to you.
Believe me,
Faithfully yours,
Charles Dickens - Credit line
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