Retitled 'Birthday Celebrations' in collected editions of the series.
The 'accidental circumstance' described in paragraph 1 sounds attractively like a reference to a birthday in the Dickens family at the time of the paper's composition, but the only Dickens child with a birthday near was Sidney Smith Dickens ('The Admiral'), sixteen on the 18 April and already enlisted as a Naval cadet—hardly a likely candidate.
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