Dickens writes to Emily Jolly, a novelist who contributed regularly to Dickens’ magazine Household Words. In part: “I am so very much occupied and have so many claims upon my thoughts that I cannot under take at this time to read your M.S. Sensible of the confidence you’ve made before 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.” One mailing fold very slightly touching signature, otherwise fine, bright condition. LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
