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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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1836-1840

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Bentley's Miscellany

editing

To FRANCIS L. S. MEREWETHER,1[?SEPTEMBER 1837]

Extract in Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré catalogue, 1998; MS 1 p. Date: Merewether’s only known contribution to Bentley’s Miscellany was in the Oct 1837 number.

The Editor of Bentley’s Miscellany2 presents his compts. to Mr. Merewether; and in reply to his note, addressed to the publisher, begs to say that any…

1. Probably Francis Lewis Shaw Merwether (1811-99; Australian Dictionary of Biography). Translated Paul de Kock’s “The Secret” from the French (Bentley’s Miscellany, Oct 1837, II, 360-9). Emigrated to New South Wales (1838), where he became an immigration agent and a member of the Legislative Council (1851-65). For his Reminiscences, see Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1973.
2. Edited by CD, 1836-9; established by Richard Bentley (1794-1871; Dictionary of National Biography), one of the most prominent of Victorian publishers: see Pilgrim Letters 1, p. 164n; for CD’s stormy relationship with him, see Pilgrim Letters 1, throughout.