The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1841-1850
Theme(s):
publishing
To MESSRS CHAPMAN & HALL,1 [?1845]
Envelope only.
Text from facsimile in Addison & Sarove Auctioneers online catalogue, Aug 2021.
Address: Wait2 | Messrs Chapman & Hall | 186 Strand
Date: Signature suggests 1845.
- 1. Booksellers and publishers, of 186 Strand, since 1830; CD’s publishers from 1836. Edward Chapman (1804-80), son of a Richmond solicitor, was the more literary of the two partners; William Hall (?1801-47) was more concerned with business arrangements. For a history of the firm, see Arthur Waugh, A Hundred Years of Publishing: Being the Story of Chapman & Hall (London: Chapman & Hall, 1930).
- 2. An instruction to the bearer to wait for a reply; underlined twice.