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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 BENJAMIN WEBSTER1, [1855-59]

Text from facsimile (fragment) on eBay, Sept 2018. Handwriting and signature suggest later 1850s.

But if you will let me know tonight, at what hour you begin tomorrow, I will come with pleasure.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Benjamin Webster Esquire

1. Benjamin Webster (1798-1882; Dictionary of National Biography), actor and theatre manager; lessee of the Adelphi Theatre from 1844: see Pilgrim Letters 3, p. 510n.

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