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1851-1860

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To ALEXANDER IRELAND,1 2 JANUARY 1860

MS Liverpool Athenaeum

TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON. W.C.

Monday Second January 1860

My Dear Sir

Having been in Wales for the last few days, I have only just now received your kind note and its accompanying paper. Pray accept my cordial thanks for both.

Very faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Alexander Ireland Esquire.

1. Alexander Ireland (1810-94), journalist and man of letters: publisher and business manager of Manchester Examiner, 1846-86. Friend of Carlyle, Leigh Hunt and Emerson, whose English lecture-tour of 1847-8 he arranged. Member of founding committee of Manchester Free Library 1851. Published bibliographies of Hunt and Hazlitt 1868; a biography of Emerson 1882; The Book-Lover's Enchiridion, 1882; and edited 12th edn of Robert Chambers's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 1884 - giving Chambers's name for the first time.