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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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1851-1860

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To JAMES M’GREGOR,1 [24 SEPTEMBER 1851]

MS (envelope only) Phillip Pirages. Address: Private | James MacGregor Esquire | Railway Terminal | London Bridge.2 Date: PM Ramsgate,3 24 Sep 51.

1. James M’Gregor (1808-58), of 4 Gloucester Square, Chairman of the South- Eastern Railway (resigned 1855). CD, who consistently misspells the name, referred to him as “a friend” (Vol. VI, p. 415) and approached him directly in 1853 about acquiring a piece of land for Miss Coutts’s Model House (Pilgrim Letters 7).
2. The office of the South-Eastern Railway was at its London Bridge terminus, Duke Street.
3. By which mail would go from Broadstairs where CD stayed from May until the autumn, during the transition from Devonshire Terrace to Tavistock House.