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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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1861-1870

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All the Year Round

Bleak House

A Tale of Two Cities

To JOHN PALGRAVE SIMPSON,1 11 AUGUST 1863

MS Huntington Library

GAD'S HILL PLACE,

HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Tuesday Eleventh August, 1863

My Dear Palgrave Simpson

I am very happy to have the pleasance of accepting your picturesque remembrances of Warsaw. The two papers will go best (I think) rolled into one.2 You shall have a proof sent to you in that form, a few days hence.

Believe me always

Very faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

J. Palgrave Simpson Esquire

1. John Palgrave Simpson (1807-87; Dictionary of National Biography), novelist and dramatist: see Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 575n. His adaptations of Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities produced after CD’s death.
2. Published as ‘When Order Reigned in Warsaw’, All the Year Round 10 (5 September 1863): 31-5.

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To John Palgrave Simpson, 8 October 1855

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