| Evidence: | 'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is so redolent of twaddle that I fear I can not take it up on any conditions to which you would be disposed to accede. I should require to be ensured three hundred pounds in the first instance without any reference to the Sale-and as I should be bound to stipulate in addition that the work should never be published in Numbers, I think it would scarcely serve your purpose.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 30 Oct 1837 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: Monday | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: 48 Doughty Street |
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| Reader: | Charles Dickens |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Journalist and writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Wilks |
| Title: | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown Sent to Dickens from Bentley. |
| Record ID: | 12114 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Charles Dickens | |
| Editor: | Madeline House | |
| Title: | The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 326 | |
| Additional comments: | Additional editor: Graham Storey. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition. |
| Citation: | Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 326, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12114, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Letter to Richard Bentley. Note 5 (p.326) explains that this letter refers to Wilks?s revision of the memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi the clown (1779-1837), recently bought for ?85 by Bentley, who had asked CD to edit it. CD eventually agreed to undertake the work for ?300 and a share in the profits on condition that he appeared as the editor not the author. It was eventually published on 23rd Feb as Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (see p. 662 for the agreement between CD and Bentley.) |
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