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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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Charles Dickens Letters Project, ed. Leon Litvack, Emily Bell, Lydia Craig and Jeremy Parrott (London: Dickens Fellowship), DickensLetters.com.

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1841-1850

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Urania Cottage

To GEORGIANA MORSON,1 1849

Envelope only.2

Text from facsimile in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury online catalogue, 2015.

Date: PM blurred, but "1849" and "12" (day of the month) clearly stamped.

Address: Mrs Morson | Urania Cottage near The White Horse | Shepherds Bush.

1. Georgiana Morson (1817-80), matron of Urania Cottage (the home for homeless women established by CD), 1849-54: see Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 509n, and Jenny Hartley, Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women (London: Methuen, 2009).
2. "Testimonial" written on the envelope in another hand.

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