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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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Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship), DickensLetters.com.

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1861-1870

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Household Words

All the Year Round

To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, [1850-8 JUNE 1870]

MS (fragment) Charles Dickens Museum. Date: from the period during which CD edited Household Words or All the Year Round.

of a shadow. A certain faculty of remembrance and imitation, and a certain facility of versification, do not make a Poet. Every day of my life, in the daily experience of a Periodical, I see these qualities leading numbers of people hopelessly adrift.

Faithfully Yours | CHARLES DICKENS

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