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Charles Dickens to Charles Cowden Clarke, 5 May 1849
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Contents
Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Douglas Jerrold
Charles Dickens
Index
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Devonshire Terrace,
5th May, 1849.

My dear Sir,—I am very sorry to say that my Orphan Working-school vote is promised in behalf of an unfortunate
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young orphan who after being canvassed for, polled for, written for, quarreled for, fought for, called for, and done all kind of things for, by ladies who wouldn’t go away and wouldn’t be satisfied with anything anybody said or did for them, was floored at the last election and comes up to the scratch next morning, for the next election, fresher than ever. I devoutly hope he may get in, and be lost sight of for evermore.

Pray give my kindest regards to my quondam Quickly, and believe me

Faithfully yours,
Charles Dickens.