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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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To W. R. S. RALSTON, 16 MAY 18701

after Huntington Library add Address (Envelope only in Heritage Book Shop catalogue, 2001): W. Ralston Esq., | British Museum | W.C. PM May 16 70.2

1. William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1828-89; Dictionary of National Biography: see further Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 255n), Russian scholar; assistant in the Printed Books Dept, British Museum, 1853-75.
2. CD’s letter thanks Ralston, but cannot profit by his “kind note”, being incapacitated by a neuralgic attack on his foot.