Evidence: | 'My dear Ross,
Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-digested form. Reciprocating all your kind wishes most cordially, I rest
Most sincerely yours,
Charles Dickens.'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1837 and 31 Oct 1837 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: Monday | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 48 Doughty Street |
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Reader: | Charles Dickens |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Journalist and writer |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Ross |
Title: | The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge |
Genre: | Mathematics, Statistical tables |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | The tables first appeared in the first no. of The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge owned by Charles Ross. It was published monthly O |
Provenance: | unknown Perhaps a gift to Dickens from Ross? |
Record ID: | 12111 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charles Dickens | |
Editor: | Madeline House | |
Title: | The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 315 | |
Additional comments: | Additional editor: Graham Storey. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition. |
Citation: | Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 315, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12111, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Note 4 explains that the tables first appeared in the first no. of The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge owned by Charles Ross. It was published monthly Oct 1837 to Feb 1838. |
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