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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent ('Dear Sir'), 90 Fleet Street, London, 2 December 1845, 2 pages, 8vo, on a bifolium (slight soiling to second page).
Dickens engages a writer for the first issue of the Daily News. The author commends the letters of a certain Wilkinson as 'very plain, sensible, and straight-forward', and offers the usual terms of 'Three Guineas for every letter inserted in the Paper', with prospects of an increase 'if [the editors] should find him doing good service to the Paper'; he ends by desiring his correspondent to discourage a prospective negotiation with the Times: 'it would place both newspapers in a disagreeable posture of antagonism, and would lead, I am persuaded, to no other result'.
The first issue of Dickens's Daily News, founded as a rival to the Morning Chronicle, emerged on 21 January 1846, with a leader announcing its intention to advocate 'principles of progress and improvement; of education, civil and religious liberty, and equal legislation'. The paper, the first of his journalistic enterprises, was not initially a great success, and after 17 issues Dickens passed on the editorship to his friend John Forster.
Dickens engages a writer for the first issue of the Daily News. The author commends the letters of a certain Wilkinson as 'very plain, sensible, and straight-forward', and offers the usual terms of 'Three Guineas for every letter inserted in the Paper', with prospects of an increase 'if [the editors] should find him doing good service to the Paper'; he ends by desiring his correspondent to discourage a prospective negotiation with the Times: 'it would place both newspapers in a disagreeable posture of antagonism, and would lead, I am persuaded, to no other result'.
The first issue of Dickens's Daily News, founded as a rival to the Morning Chronicle, emerged on 21 January 1846, with a leader announcing its intention to advocate 'principles of progress and improvement; of education, civil and religious liberty, and equal legislation'. The paper, the first of his journalistic enterprises, was not initially a great success, and after 17 issues Dickens passed on the editorship to his friend John Forster.
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