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1861-1870

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To ELLEN PAINE1, [5 JANUARY 1866]

Envelope only.

Text from facsimile on eBay, October 2016.

Date: PM London 5 Jan 1866.

Address: Mrs. Paine| Rickmansworth | Herts.

1. Ellen Matilda Steward Paine (1809-1882), of Rickmansworth. Author of The Two James's and the Two Stephensons; or, The Earliest History of Passenger Transit on Railways (1861). Daughter of William James (1771-1837), railway developer. For the subject of the correspondence see To Ellen Paine, 30 Dec 1865 and 1 Jan 1866. For a full account of her dealings with CD see Leon Litvack, 'Dickens and the Stephenson Party: New Letters to E.M.S. Paine', Dickensian 114.2 (2018): 149-58. See also To Ellen Paine, 30 Dec 1865 and 1 Jan 1866.

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