Letter from Charles Dickens to Messrs Sampson Low Son & Co
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line 1: 26 Wellington Street, W.C.
line 2: Office of All the Year Round
line 3: A weekly Journal conducted by Charles Dickens
line 4: Late
line 5: No 11 Wellington Street North, Strand, London, W.C.
line 6: Saturday Twenty Fifth August 1860
line 7: Dear Sirs
line 8: I beg to assure you in reply to your
line 9: obliging letter which reached me this morning,
line 10: that I am profoundly sensible of, and have
line 11: the highest respect for, the thoroughly ingenuous
line 12: and honourable spirit on your part which
line 13: prompted that communication. Accept my
line 14: cordial thanks.
line 15: While I would not, on principle
line 16: sanction any American Edition of my books
line 17: in which I their author have no right conceded
line 18: to me and from which I derive no advantage – and
line 19: while I therefore would hold no terms with
line 20: the American proprietors of the Edition in question
line 21: from which my concurrence in the intrusion
line 22: they undertake for their own profit, could be
line 23: to any persuasion inferred – still I would on
line 24: no account interfere between you and the
line 25: execution of the innocent business trust
line 26: you describe. Pray understand that I hold
line 27: you yourself justified in discharging it.
line 28: With the assurance of my confidencePage 2
line 1: and esteem, I beg to remain
line 2: Dear Sirs
line 3: Yours faithfully and obliged
line 4: Charles Dickens
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