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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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1861-1870

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clothing

To MESSRS SPARKS & SON,1 25 AUGUST 1868

MS T. Vennett-Smith catalogue, December 1992.

GAD’S HILL PLACE, | HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Tuesday Twenty Fifth August 1868

Mr. Charles Dickens begs Messrs. Sparks and Son to be so good as make and send him 2 pairs of elastic stockings like the last.2

1. Patent surgical bandage, trusses and instrument makers, 28 Conduit Street, New Bond Street.
2. CD had worn elastic stockings at least since 1863 (Pilgrim Letters 10, p. 213).