Letter from Charles Dickens to Frederick Ouvry

In this letter, Dickens drafts his contract for the publication of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Dickens asked to be paid £7,500, an enormous sum compared to the £500 he was paid to write Oliver twist 30 years before.

Letter from Dickens to Frederick Ouvry, Saturday Thirtieth October 1869. E126.1 © Charles Dickens Museum