Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to Mrs. Howitt, 1850 Feb. 19.

BIB_ID
289538
Accession number
MA 94.37
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Feb. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Dickens to his contemporaries. Items in the collection are described separately. See MA 94 for more information.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Telling her that he is starting a "new cheap literary weekly Journal" [Household Words] and would be delighted if she or her husband would write something for it; explaining that he "propose[s] to print no names of contributors" and "to give established writers the power of reclaiming their papers after a certain time."