The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1851-1860
Theme(s):
editing
All the Year Round
friends
To MARGUERITE POWER,1 28 DECEMBER 1859
Facsimile in Bloomsbury Auctions online catalogue, December 2014.
OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND
Wednesday Twenty Eighth December 1859
My Dear Marguerite.
“Yes,” to “Getting up Early.”2 With pleasure.
Kind regard at home
Ever affecy.
CD.
- 1. Marguerite Agnes Power (1815-67), niece of CD’s friend the Countess of Blessington. She edited The Keepsake (1851-7), and published a number of novels, including Evelyn Forester (1856), The Foresters (1858), The Letters of a Betrothed (1858), Nelly Carew (1859) and Sweethearts and Wives (1861). In 1860 she wrote Virginia’s Hand, a long narrative poem dedicated to John Forster.
- 2. ‘Getting Up Early’, All the Year Round 3 (12 May 1860): 105-8.