"A House to Let" was the first collaboration between the four writers, although Collins and Dickens had worked with Procter on previous Christmas stories for the magazine in 1854, 1855, and 1856.The four authors would write together again in 1859's "The Haunted House" which appeared in the extra Christmas number of "All the Year Round", the successor to "Household Words" which Dickens had started after a dispute with his publishers.