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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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Barnaby Rudge

To MRS SHUTTLEWORTH,1 1 DECEMBER 1841

Text from facsimile in Stanley Gibbons eBay catalogue, August 2007. Address: Free | Mrs. Shuttleworth | Tottenham Green | Tottenham.

1 Devonshire Terrace | York Gate Regent’s Park

Wednesday, First December 1841.

To all those whose signatures are attached to the Round Robin from Tottenham of Monday’s date2 I send my hearty thanks for their communication and cordially respond to all their good wishes and kind expressions.

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Ann Shuttleworth, wife of George Edmund Shuttleworth, auctioneer and surveyor, of High Cross Green, Tottenham.
2. A letter of appreciation, dated 29 November, the signatures set out in a circle, a device originally intended to avoid any one signatory being identified as chief instigator in letters of complaint. Presumably a response to the completion of Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey’s Clock (27 Nov) and CD’s farewell to his readers for twelve months.