ALS, one page, 4.5 x 6.75, personal black-bordered Gad’s Hill Place letterhead, February 27, 1864. Dickens responds to a submission to his magazine, All the Year Round. In full: “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 for 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….” Mild handling wear, subtle soiling, and a few marginal stains and spots of skinning not affecting any text, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
