New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-07
To THOMAS milton.
Devonshire Terrace,

Monday Morning. Feb IL 1874.
Dear Milton Prepare yourself LOT a., sn s yben
opened THIS Carol account on Saturday nig9C anu ~
though had got over By Yesterday aHe enf az bady
as Macbeth ever snce-which is, thank Cod alinOS'
Have NOT the least doubt that they have run the ex
penses up anyhow purposey 10 bring me oavA n
gust me with the charges you A., %lI t9 they cost me
more than get had 5000 tor the aOung ooudiu ,c
poor thing OF little worth pu6seq rsnT haSS I'D
hered to the strict business per cehtage sGcns
shadow OF war before The vouchers shali lnspeot
before sign their books But OF course they nave got
Observe little Halls note with the sllusion 10 the Amer
II YOU can send me these papers back in the course o.
not tell Bradbury & Evans as think II hgny lm ,m
tant not TO dash the triumph o. 1Ic TIoA DICKESs
yours, ChAi'hl' -
bebalf years profits Of Chuzzlewit are 300
The next letter which is misplaced in the collec-
ton being inserted thirtyfour pages ahead OF l'S
order is not marked with the year, but IL was
evidently written on the same day as the preceding
probably in response 10 Mitton's answer
TO THOMAS MILTON.
Monday Feb. IL.
My Dear Milton: afraid cannC! possibly geC
around to you before dinner as want hnt NJ tbe
AthsuRum, which will most likely keep me untI ~
O'clock II you will call there aud ask Tor me ~ I
t,nc e cal 90 over 10 the PartheuOn and discuss mat
ters As TO Chapman Hairs, thatl past anu O'Si
ann as YOU NAV snnpose not only my beam-cnds
but m ted over on the Oner side. Nothing so unt GPeGtc
and utterly disappointing has ever oelaieh Ho iH'
The 6ni for 5000 must be provided for. To that
h NV SvorScd roUnd somehow I wish could say that
how Il nm thundersTlcRen py tms n 1i 1 ~" Won
have been on The other side Win !Ou oi'ou' All" '
must do your best for me. 60. -, -. s,.,,,-, -
Nothing upnOlds under this but tho very SiTcnin'
stance that makes IL so remendOus-the WOndellu SUI
expect that Chapman Halls answer viii be Inn
htul nj lpr
engaged Tonight, sou will tud me at nome Gd do"o
between this and half-past four Faithfully n
Just before Dickenss visit to Italy, the proprietor
of The Morning Chronicle the paper on which he did
his principal service rs reporter, and to which he
had occasionally sent volunteer communication
IN tho midst of his successes wished to secure reg
Mar series of contributions from him. This project
IS referred to in the following letter. but not much
came of it.
TO THOMAS MILTON.
Devonshire Terrace,
Sunday, March 10, 1914
ION greasy paper.
Ny Dear Milton Easthope Is such a damned screw;
Thought It best TO daily but 20 do sOmetlug-oi the
good men OF the past they hrari was st"nas O
do from him) might think hal rather forgotten feds
quick appointment ana rapid reWUfI' 20 'a o ~ op
haggle Ike a pUdler, but III write leader no" hhu
1m IL Juut 70 Hchl luo 70 Ih'lhc tho
wnOle He snail his value on tnemi ana IL re
scls too little, the shame l. Bs, aud not mine lie
would nav ANY THING, be says Tor letters from lta!Y
put thai wouldn't do. have doubt be would pay 20
guInras a week But ~ wouldn't do.
srnd Won a paper with my first article IN It, the
seconu leader When you read II send II me Oack
a. have nc other. $1,000 80.
men rom Cnuzzcwit up the cudGe debt Il reduced
TO g 900 There viii then b. the hall years profile 10
dcGuCf and the whole subscription. So please God 70
yylI nave me down brtvcly by the time start.
This cooks all, think
Faithfully always,