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DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter in the third person ("Mr Charles Dickens"), to John Moss, regretting that "his avocations render it quite impossible for him to accept the invitation of the Derby Mechanic's Institution"; Broadstairs, 28 September 1850
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
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DICKENS DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF WRITING DAVID COPPERFIELD. The last three numbers (for September, October and November 1850) appeared while Dickens was on an extended holiday with his family at Broadstairs, the last words of the novel – the completion of such an ambitious and strongly autobiographical novel proving an especially intense and draining experience - being written on 23 October, the family returning to town the next day. Additional "avocations" preoccupying him at this time included the birth of his tenth and last child and the establishment of his first weekly periodical, Household Words, the second number of which is dated 28 September.





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