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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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To THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER,1 [?15 OCTOBER 1842]

Envelope only, MS R & R Auctions, June 2006. Address: Theodore Ledyard Cuyler Esquire / Morley’s Hotel / Trafalgar Square. Date: shortly before CD sent Cuyler American Notes (published 19 October).

1. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909; Dictionary of American Biography); met CD in Philadelphia Mar 42 and in London later that year Cuyler in Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography (1902), pp. 20-22, describes his visit to Devonshire Terrace after CD, calling at Morley’s Hotel and finding him out, invited him there. This envelope presumably contained the invitation: see To Cuyler, 26 Oct. Pilgrim Letters 4, p. 357.