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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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To HENRY MAYHEW,1 23 OCTOBER 1838

Description in Bonhams online catalogue, June 2020.

1. Henry Mayhew (1812-87; Dictionary of National Biography), author and reformer. Edited, with Gilbert À Beckett, the popular weekly Figaro in London; wrote plays, including The Wandering Minstrel (1834) and But However – (1838). Mayhew contributed the comic piece "Mr. Peter Punctilio, the Gentleman in Black" to Bentley's Miscellany (which CD edited) in 1838. See Harvey Peter Sucksmith, "Dickens and Mayhew: A Further Note", Nineteenth-Century Fiction 24.3 (1969): 345-9.