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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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1861-1870

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America

To JOHN D. BALDWIN,1 9 FEBRUARY 1868

Text from digitised facsimile in Raabautographs website, Apr 2002.

Baltimore2

February 9, 1868

In reply to your obliging letter I beg to say that, having no means of reference at hand, I cannot answer the questions it propounds to me. For the same reason I have no present suggestions to offer to the body of gentlemen you represent who doubtless have before them and fresh in their memories most of the materials towards forming their conclusions on good authority.

1. Neither Baldwin nor the subject of his letter discovered.
2. CD spent from Sun 9 to Wed 13 Feb in Baltimore during his American reading tour (Dec 67-Apr 68); he gave two readings in the Concordia Opera House: on Mon he read Dr Marigold and the Trial; on Tues he read Nicholas Nickleby and Boots.