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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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To H. G. ADAMS,1 1862

Mention (envelope only), Walter T. Spencer catalogue, No. 60 (1893); addressed H. G. Adams, dated 1862.

1. Henry Gardiner Adams (?1811-81), chemist and apothecary (see Pilgrim Letters 2, p. 11n). Wrote books on birds, insects and flowers, religious verse, and a biography of Dr Livingstone. Edited God's Image in Ebony, 1854, an anthology demonstrating the mental powers of negroes. As Secretary of the Mechanics' Institute, Chatham, was frequently in touch with CD during the 1860s concerning public reading engagements; no other letter to him in 1862 currently known.