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Charles Dickens.

BY

HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER.

Mary Dickens.

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CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:

LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

JUN 22 188)

Lowell Grund.

PREFACE.

I HAVE written this short biography of my father at the request of Messrs. Cassell and Company, expressly for the young. I have little that is new to tell, the subject having already been exhaustively treated in Mr. Forster's "Life," and in our own published "Letters." I have tried to collect every incident which will be most likely to interest and to appeal to young people; and whenever I have been able to use my father's own words, I have done so. If the reading of this little book be the means of making any boys and girls love and venerate the Man-before they can know and love and venerate the Author and the Genius-I shall have accom

plished my task with a thankful and a grateful heart.

MAMIE DICKENS.

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