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Dickens, Charles. To [addressee], [date of letter]. Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship). [URL of individual letter], [date of access].

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1861-1870

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To FREDERIC CHAPMAN,1 1861

Text from facsimile in Bonham's online catalogue, May 2020.
Address: Fredk. Chapman Esquire | 193 Piccadilly | W.
Date: duplex PM 1861, day and month unclear; London, W.C. 12

1. Frederic (or Frederick) Chapman (1823-95), publisher. He became a partner of CD's publishers Chapman and Hall in 1847, and took over the firm when his cousin Edward Chapman (1804-80) retired in 1864. In 1861 CD corresponded with him in reference to the Illustrated Library Edition, as well as about the publication of Great Expectations, and the public reading text of Little Dombey.