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Retitled 'An Old Stage-Coaching House' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens touches on the national decline in coaching activity in the face of railway competition in 'Dullborough Town' but had first publicly predicted it in 1837, in his final editorial contribution to Bentley's Miscellany (see Vol. 1 of the Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, p. 553).

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Retitled 'The Boiled Beef of New England' in collected editions of the series.

In 'The Great Baby' and 'The Poor Man and His Beer', Dickens had attacked the combination of patronage and mistrust of the working man evinced by many charity workers and social reformers.

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Retitled 'Chatham Dockyard' in collected editions of the series.

Henry VIII first rented storehouses at Chatham to service his fleet in 1547.

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Retitled 'In the French-Flemish Country' in collected editions of the series.

The 'French-Flemish Country' depicted here was a former province of France known as Flandre Française, now comprising the Département du Nord, the most northerly of the French departments, bordering Belgium.

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Retitled 'Medicine Men of Civilisation' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens had expressed exasperation with the resurgence of popular support for the concept of 'the noble savage' in an article in HW of the same name (see Vol. 3 of the Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, Item 19) but the present article, and others, display a considerable interest in the customs and rituals of aboriginal peoples in Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas, together with a tendency—central to the present paper—to instigate comparisons with the forms and ceremonies of so-called 'civilised' societies (i.e. the European) that are flattering to neither category (see, for example, Vol. 2 of the Dent edition, Item 25).

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Retitled 'Titbull's Alms-Houses' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens clearly signals that a composite sketch of east London almshouses is intended in the present paper.

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This article may have been authored by Charles Dickens; the attribution is unproven.  

Attribution to Meason derives from File 1645 of the Royal Literary Fund archive (British Library): application dates 1 March 1875. The editorial (probably by Dickens) relates back to Meason's 'Our Suburban Residence' (Vol. XV, No. 365, pp. 349-52), hence Meason probably author of the letter.