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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 WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH,1 [1836-41]

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Text from description in Bonham's online catalogue, May 2020.
Address: William Harrison Ainsworth Esqre. | Kensal Lodge | Harrow Road
Date: Handwriting suggests 1836-41.

1. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82; Dictionary of National Biography), historical novelist; son of a Manchester solicitor. He and CD met about 1834-5 (see further Pilgrim Letters 1, p. 115, n.2). A frequent contributor to Bentley’s Miscellany, he succeeded CD as editor, Feb 1839.

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