DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to Miss Emily Jolly, refusing to read her manuscript: "I am so very much occupied and have so many claims upon my thoughts, that I really cannot undertake at this time to read your MS. Sensible of the confidence you would repose in me, it would haunt me if I had it in a drawer here, but I could not help its doing so, perhaps for months, before I could bestow attention on it", 1 page, on mourning paper, integral blank, very light browning but nevertheless in attractive condition, 8vo, Gad's Hill, 2 January 1864 Fußnoten 'I REALLY CANNOT UNDERTAKE AT THIS TIME TO READ YOUR MS' – Dickens rebuffs a female novelist. Emily Jolly had sent Dickens her first work of fiction, 'Wife's Story', in 1854, which he praised highly, saying she had 'great fame' before her, and published in Household Words. Three further stories however were rejected before he accepted 'An Experience' for All the Year Round in 1869, thinking it 'a very special thing'. Her novel Safely Married was to appear in the same magazine after Dickens's death (for further details, see Anne Lohrli, 'Emily Jolly', Dickens Journals Online, 1971). This letter is printed in the Pilgrim Edition.
DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to Miss Emily Jolly, refusing to read her manuscript: "I am so very much occupied and have so many claims upon my thoughts, that I really cannot undertake at this time to read your MS. Sensible of the confidence you would repose in me, it would haunt me if I had it in a drawer here, but I could not help its doing so, perhaps for months, before I could bestow attention on it", 1 page, on mourning paper, integral blank, very light browning but nevertheless in attractive condition, 8vo, Gad's Hill, 2 January 1864 Fußnoten 'I REALLY CANNOT UNDERTAKE AT THIS TIME TO READ YOUR MS' – Dickens rebuffs a female novelist. Emily Jolly had sent Dickens her first work of fiction, 'Wife's Story', in 1854, which he praised highly, saying she had 'great fame' before her, and published in Household Words. Three further stories however were rejected before he accepted 'An Experience' for All the Year Round in 1869, thinking it 'a very special thing'. Her novel Safely Married was to appear in the same magazine after Dickens's death (for further details, see Anne Lohrli, 'Emily Jolly', Dickens Journals Online, 1971). This letter is printed in the Pilgrim Edition.
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