| Evidence: | 'My Dear Sir,
As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my not having been able to find room in the next No. for that same paper. If you will leave it in my good keeping until the 28th. (February is a short month) we will astonish the Grand Jurors with it. I have laughed very heartily over it, and although I have never served (for I always pay my taxes when they won?t call any longer, in order to get a bad name in the parish and so escape all honors) I can see it is true to the life.'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 29 Jan 1838 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| 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: | Thomas Gaspey |
| Title: | The Grand Juror |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | Found Sent to Dickens by Gaspey for the Miscellany. |
| Record ID: | 12120 | |
| 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: | 363 | |
| 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. 363, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12120, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| [Thomas Gaspey, ?The Grand Juror? in which the author, serving as a judge for the first time, was called a colt. Note 2.] |
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