The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To ALFRED JOHN TRIX,1 27 FEBRUARY 1864

Text from facsimile in R&R Auctions, February 2008. On mourning paper.

GAD’S HILL PLACE, | HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT. 

Saturday Twenty Seventh February 1864

 Sir. For the reasons referred to in your letter, I have very readily given my personal attention to your little paper. It would have been a pleasure to me to have accepted it for insertion in “All The Year Round”, if I could reasonably have done so. But although your sea-experience is plainly and unaffectedly told, it is not sufficiently novel or striking to enable me to have that gratification

Alfred John Trix Esquire

Faithfully Yours 

 CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. Alfred John Trix (1844-1909).