Letter signed from Charles Dickens, 1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park, to John Payne Collier, 1842 July 7
Item — Box: Y.d.341(1-56)
Identifier: Y.d.341 (42)
Scope and Contents note
Printed circular letter. Describes his efforts in America to secure an international copyright agreement between Britain the United States. The letter "got into American newspapers alongside a forged letter in which he was maliciously represented as branding America a country of gross manners and squalid money-making" (DNB.)
Dates
- 1842 July 7
Availability
Collection is open for research.
General note
Removed from W.b.507, p. viii.
Repository Details
Part of the Folger Shakespeare Library Repository
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