Additional Note - January, 1839
At this time Dickens was becoming obsessed with the idea that publishers were making a good deal more profit from his work than he was and wrote to Forster:
"... the immense profit which Oliver had realised to its publisher and is still realising, the paltry wretched miserable sum it brought to me ... the consciousness that my books are enriching everybody connected with them but myself, and that I, with such a popularity as I have acquired am struggling in old toils, am wasting my energies in the very height and freshness of my fame and the best part of my life to fill the pockets of others while for those who are nearest and dearest to me I can realise little more than a genteel subsistence."
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