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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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To RICHARD JOHNS,1 4 AUGUST 1845

Envelope only. Text from facsimile on eBay, Dec 2017.

Address: Captain Johns | 13 Bowater Crescent | Woolwich

1. Richard Johns (1805-51), Lieutenant Royal Marines; stationed for many years on Ascension Island. An early friend of CD's, perhaps from his days in Chatham. Published poems and stories; his Calendar of Victory, a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land (1855) was in the Gad's Hill library at CD's death. Contributed 10 pieces to Bentley's Miscellany, Mar 1837-Dec 1840, and "Alan Skeene" to The Pic Nic Papers.