The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
All the Year Round
To C. A. COLE,1 10 MAY 1862
MS Phillip Pirages.
OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,
Saturday Tenth May 1862
My Dear Cole.
I am very sorry that I cannot have the pleasure of accepting this little paper, but it really is not suitable for our purpose here. If it had come a little earlier, I would have taken it, because of its hitting the nick of time. But we are always a fortnight ahead, and it would be too late. Pray thank the authoress2 for me.
Charles Cole Esquire
Faithfully Yours
CHARLES DICKENS
- 1. Presumably Charles Augustus Cole (1819-87), clerk in the Public Record Office; had appeared in The Merry Wives and Every Man in His Humour with the amateurs (1848); later contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round: see Pilgrim Letters 5, p.300n.
- 2. Neither authoress nor paper identified.