21 JANUARY 1871, Page 13

"HUNTED DOWN."

[TO THE EDITOIL OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1

Six,--Tn your notice of the " Piccadilly Annual" you mention a story by Charles Dickens as "never before published in this country, having been purchased, we are told, by a foreign news- paper proprietor' for a thousand guineas." I presume this state- ment is taken from the " Piccadilly Annual," but from what you say of the story I recognize it as one which appeared in All the Year Round. As well as I can remember, it appeared shortly after the transformation of Household Words into the above publi- cation, and was called "Hunted Down."—I am, Sir, &c.,

W. G.