BIB_ID
290696
Accession number
MA 107.43
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1859.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
The letter was deciphered in 2021 by participants in the "Decoding Dickens" competition, part of The Dickens Code project (2021-2023). The description of its contents is based on their collective deciphering and transcription work.
A penciled note tentatively dates the document to May 1859. This dating is further supported by the contents of the letter, which appear to refer to the transition period between Dickens' editorship of Household Words and All the Year Round.
The letter may be a shorthand copy or a draft of a letter by Dickens to the editor of the Times, John T. Delane. See Bowles and Wood, p. 266.
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 107 for more information.
Written using Brachygraphy, the Gurney system of shorthand, with Dickens' modifications.
Written on Tavistock House stationery in Dickens' blue ink and apparently in Dickens' hand. Dickens lived at Tavistock House from 1851-1860.
A penciled note tentatively dates the document to May 1859. This dating is further supported by the contents of the letter, which appear to refer to the transition period between Dickens' editorship of Household Words and All the Year Round.
The letter may be a shorthand copy or a draft of a letter by Dickens to the editor of the Times, John T. Delane. See Bowles and Wood, p. 266.
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 107 for more information.
Written using Brachygraphy, the Gurney system of shorthand, with Dickens' modifications.
Written on Tavistock House stationery in Dickens' blue ink and apparently in Dickens' hand. Dickens lived at Tavistock House from 1851-1860.
Summary
Regarding an advertisement about the contents of number 3 of All the Year Round; also referring to an announcement about the discontinuation of Household Words after Ascension Day; saying that the ad was sent back; mentioning a court judgment signed by [John] Romilly and asking that the ad be restored.
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