BIB_ID
327256
Accession number
MA 470.61
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1866 Feb. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield and others. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Written on Office of All the Year Round stationery.
Written on Office of All the Year Round stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Apologizing for the length of time it took him to read her story, noting that he was ill. Remarking on its "unsuitability" to serial publication but praising it on the whole and discussing its merits. Giving suggestions about how to brighten it up and noting that if it were published in two volumes it "would have good claims to success."
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