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"The Village Coquettes."
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Mrs. Braham.
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Printed in "Forty Years' Recollections of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs," by Charles Mackay.
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A chain made of Mary Hogarth's hair, sent to Charles Dickens on the first anniversary of her birthday, after her death.
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This fragment of a
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"The Village Coquettes."
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Mrs. Braham.
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Printed in "Forty Years' Recollections of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs," by Charles Mackay.
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A chain made of Mary Hogarth's hair, sent to Charles Dickens on the first anniversary of her birthday, after her death.
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This fragment of a diary was found amongst some papers which have recently come to light. The Editors give only those paragraphs which are likely to be of any public interest. The original manuscript has been added to "The Forster Collection," at the South Kensington Museum.
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"Sunday, under Three Heads," a small pamphlet published about this time.
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"Bentley's Miscellany."
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No other date, but it must have been 7th February, 1839.
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Mr. Adams, the Hon. Secretary of the Chatham Mechanics' Institute, which office he held for many years.
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"The Kentish Coronal."
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An intimate friend.
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A Dissenting minister, once himself a workhouse boy, and writing on the character of Oliver Twist. This letter was published in "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," in 1862.
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This, and all other Letters addressed to the Countess of Blessington, were printed in "Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington."
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The death of his correspondent's twin-brother, Willis Gaylord Clark.
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On the occasion of the sudden death of Mrs. Hogarth's son, George.
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This, and all other Letters addressed to Mr. Washington Irving, were printed in "The Life and Letters of Washington Irving," edited by his nephew, Pierre M. Irving.
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This, and all other Letters addressed to Professor Felton, were printed in Mr. Field's "Yesterdays with Authors," originally published in
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On the subject of International Copyright.
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This, and all other Letters addressed to Mr. Macvey Napier, were printed in "Selection from the Correspondence of the late Macvey Napier, Esq.," editor of
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His complaint was that the reviewer of his "American Notes," in the number for January, 1843, had represented him as having gone to America as a missionary in the cause of international copyright – an allegation which Charles Dickens repudiated, and which was rectified in the way he himself suggested.
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On the occasion of a great meeting of the Mechanics' Institution at Liverpool, with Charles Dickens in the chair.
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He had also presided two evenings previously at a meeting of the Polytechnic Institution at Birmingham.
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A character in a Play, well known at this time.
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"Studies of Sensation and Event."