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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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1841-1850

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health

To JOHN DURANCÉ GEORGE,1 18 FEBRUARY 1848

MS private

Devonshire Terrace
Friday Night, Eighteenth February
1848

My Dear Sir

I need not say that I am very much indebted to you for your kind note, and that your small patient2 will attend on Monday.

Faithfully Yours always

CHARLES DICKENS

Durancé George Esquire

1. John Durancé George (1815-51), Dental Surgeon at University College Hospital and Lecturer on dental surgery. Studied medicine at University College London 1835-7; qualified as MRCS in 1838. He became dentist to London society figures, including the Dowager Queen Adelaide. George's cousin, Samuel Cartwright Jr (1815-91), became CD's dentist in 1853.
2. One of CD's children, who required dental treatment.

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