Lot 28
Dickens, Charles. ALS on the letterhead of Dickens' journal, "Office of All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal Conducted By Charles Dickens," 1p, in blue ink, 8" x 5", 26 Wellington Street, W.C., London, 1860 May 22. To Robert Fletcher,who had submitted a poem for publication. Fine; light soiling. Accompanied by a postcard photo of Dickens.
In part: "…I beg to assure you that a poem of 1100 lines is quite apart from the scope and limits of this journal….it is one of the rules of my life (enforced by its occupations) to give no opinions on manuscripts which I have no chance of helping towards publication….The little poem…opens very prettily…but it is something beyond the present range of its interesting writer.…" All the Year Round was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens between 1859 and 1870; it was the successor to his previous journal, Household Words. After Dickens' death in 1870, All the Year Round was edited by his son until 1893.
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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