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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 JOSEPH CHARLES PARKINSON,1 31 OCTOBER 1865

MS University of Rhode Island Special Collections.

GAD’S HILL PLACE, | HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT.

Tuesday Thirty First October, 1865

My Dear Mr. Parkinson

I send you two proxy papers for the Incurables’ Hospital.2 Please put a figure against your candidates’ name in each.

J. C. Parkinson Esquire.

Faithfully Yours alwys

CHARLES DICKENS

1. Joseph Charles Parkinson (1833-1908), clerk in Accountant and Comptroller- General’s Dept, Inland Revenue: see Pilgrim Letters 9, p. 283 & nn. Parkinson had helped Helen, wife of Alfred Lamert Dickens, after Alfred’s death. See Leon Litvack and Hugh Craig, "Charles Dickens and Joseph Parkinson: Disentangling Composite Authorship in All the Year Round", Dickens Quarterly 35.4 (2018), pp. 303-49.
2. The Royal Incurables’ Hospital, since 1863 at West Hill, Putney. CD had previously given his vote to Parkinson (Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 26) and did so again in May 66 (Pilgrim Letters 11, p. 198).