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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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Household Words

All the Year Round

To EDMUND YATES1, [12 March 1867]

Envelope only.

Text from facsimile in Boisgirard-Antonini online catalogue, June 2016.

Date: PM 12 March 1867.

Address: Edmund Yates Esquire | General Post Office | St. Martins le Grand

1. Edmund Yates (1831-94; Dictionary of National Biography), journalist and novelist. Son of the actors Frederick Henry (see Pilgrim Letters 2, p. 10n) and Elizabeth Yates (née Brunton); educated at Highgate School and in Germany; entered the Post Office 1847, the Head of Missing Letters 1862, retired 1872. Member of the Garrick Club, Dec 1848. Married Louisa Katherine Wilkinson 1853. Met CD in 1854 and became a close friend and protégé. Contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round.

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