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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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Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship), DickensLetters.com.

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1841-1850

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To MISS CARDEN,1 7 AUGUST 1850

Text from facsimile in Swann Auction Galleries, New York, May 2011.

Devonshire Terrace | Seventh August, 18502

Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Miss Carden, and regrets that he cannot give her the permission she asks, as it is in3 the right of the author who (he understands) has bestowed it elsewhere.

1. Unidentified.
2. Address and date at foot of letter.
3. “in” written above an omission mark.