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To CLARKE ASPINALL,1 11 MARCH 1869

Extract in Antiquariat Zorn (D-35037) Marburg catalogue, 2004; addressed Clarke Aspinall; dated York, Thursday Eleventh March 1869.

...I owe you many thanks for your two kind letters. Excuse my troubling you by adding one name which by an oversight I omitted yesterday—that of Mr. Arthur Chappell.2

1. Clarke Aspinall (1827-91), JP, solicitor; Hon. Secretary, committee organising the Liverpool Dinner for CD, 10 Apr: for the proposal, see Pilgrim Letters 12, p. 253 & nn; for the dinner, see Speeches of CD, ed. K. J. Fielding, 1960 (revsd ed. 1988), pp. 384-93.
2. Arthur Chappell (1834-1904) of Chappell & Co., music publishers, promoters of CD’s reading tours since 1866. For the others for whom CD has sought Aspinall’s assistance to obtain tickets, see To Aspinall, 9 Mar 69 (Pilgrim Letters 12, pp. 308-309).