The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
publishing
Bleak House
Little Dorrit
To MESSRS BRADBURY & EVANS, 9 NOVEMBER 1863
Text from Walter T. Spencer catalogue No. 110 (1902); MS 1 p.; dated Gad’s Hill Place according to earlier mention.
Monday Ninth November 1863.
Dear Sirs,
Please send Cheap Edition of Bleak House and Little Dorrit1 (only) to Mrs. Alfred Dickens,2
4 Grafton Terrace,
Haverstock Hill,
Hampstead Road.3
Faithfully yours always
CHARLES DICKENS
- 1. The Cheap Edition of Bleak House was published and printed by Bradbury & Evans, 1858; transferred as publishers to Chapman & Hall, 1861. That of Little Dorrit was published (1861) by Chapman & Hall, but still printed by Bradbury & Evans.
- 2. Née Helen Dobson (?1823-1915): Alfred, CD’s next youngest brother, had died in July 1860.
- 3. CD rented the house for Helen and her children. CD’s mother lived with them until her death, September 1863. CD was arranging to transfer Helen and the children to Yorkshire by the end of 1863; they returned to London in 1866.