Item Info

Accession Number: 87-540
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

My Dear Mitton
    They are the damndest rascals in the World, one and all. If we do not trounce them, all I can say, is, that the English Law in these matters is even worse than I take it to be. And it does not need to be that.
    We had a corresponding case - corresponding I mean to that of the Liverpool Albion - with a Birmingham paper once. I do not remember the exact circumstances, but I know they made submission. I will go carefully over the Piracy, and let you have it on Monday. Sometime on that day, I will certainly come down. The parcel shall be sent on to you, the first thing on Monday Morning. You may perhaps think it worth while to ask Chapman and Hall to tell you exactly what occurred.
    The passages you have marked, don't seem to me as important as they do to you. If the Carol don't fix them, nothing will. 
                                                                                         Faithfully Ever
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                                                                                                            Devonshire Terrace
                                                                                                                     Saturday Thirteenth January 
                                                                                                                               1844 

MssDate: Saturday Thirteenth January 1844.
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Recipient: Mitton, Thomas, 1812-1878
Provenance: Sotheby, lot 584, via Sessler 7/31/62, Matlack

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Four, 1844-1846, p. 20.

Country: Creation Place Note:Devonshire Terrace
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL M698 1844-01-13
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author