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ALS, two pages, 4.25 x 6.75, December 19, 1843. Handwritten letter to Andrew Bell, in full: "I have only this moment risen from the current number of Chuzzlewit; or I would have answered your note, sooner. I have no doubt that I shall be at home at eleven on Thursday morning, or at eleven on Friday morning. I shall be glad to see you on either day. If both are inconvenient, let me know and I will appoint another. I have conceived a real regard for Bradbury and Evans, and am pained by your allusions to them. It is very possible that six months hence you will think more fondly of them yourself. But in any case, it is a subject I would rather avoid." He adds a postscript: "I am very glad you think so highly of the Carol. It interested me, exceedingly." Handsomely matted and framed with a cabinet card portrait of Dickens to an overall size of 18 x 11; the frame's backing bears an affixed Goodspeed's Book Shop label. In fine condition.
Published in The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition, Volume 3, 1842-1843.
In this fascinating letter, Dickens responds to praise for his just-released A Christmas Carol, published by Chapman & Hall on the day of this letter, December 19, 1843. Priced at five shilling, the first run of 6,000 copies sold out by Christmas Eve. He also defends his printers, Bradbury & Evans, who would become Dickens' publisher in 1844, and mentions working on the "current number" of The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, a novel serialized between January 1843 and July 1844. A superb, beautifully penned Dickens letter boasting top-notch content.
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