The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To T. R. EELES,1 2 FEBRUARY 1858

MS Huntington Library.

Tavistock House | Second February 1858.

Dear Mr. Eeles

I ought to have told you that I did not wish this MS2 to be lettered with my name. Will you be so good as to have the lettering “C. Dickens” on the back, taken off, and the lettering,

Original

Manuscript

put in its place.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Thomas Robert Eeles, bookbinder of 22 Cursitor Street. In 1851 he had provided the dummy books for CD’s library (Pilgrim Letters 6, pp. 524-5 & nn, 851); the business continued to work for CD at least to 1866 (Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 163).
• 2. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, written jointly by CD and Wilkie Collins (Household Words, Christmas No., 7 Dec 1857). The MS presented to Collins, 6 Feb (Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 517).