Warlike Wimbledon
15/8/1863
An Obliging Dragon
Twilight Dozing
The Uncommercial Traveller [xxiv]
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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Tyburnia of Old
Sophie's Ribbon
Advertisements
Very Hard Cash [xxii]
22/8/1863
Patched Law
Wounded Soldiers
Based in part on Henry Dunant, Un Souvenir de Solferino (Genève: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick,1862). See also 'A Souvenir of Solferino', All the Year Round, IX, No. 212.
Punch in Australia
Two Russian Villages
Compiled and edited by Henry Morley from the notes of the acquaintance of a doctor friend, according to his Preface to Sketches of Russian life before and during the emancipation of the serfs (London: Chapman & Hall / Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1866) where the article is reprinted with additional material as Chapter XIV (http://archive.org/details/sketchesrussian00morlgoog). DJO attribution.
1) Advertisement for the Continuation of The Uncommercial Traveller. 2) Advertisement for the Ninth Volume of All the Year Round.
Very Hard Cash [xxiii]
29/8/1863
A French Hand on the Piano
The Uncommercial Traveller [xxv]
Retitled 'Chatham Dockyard' in collected editions of the series.
Henry VIII first rented storehouses at Chatham to service his fleet in 1547.
Kites
Country Cottages
Drawing a Badger
Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Article reprinted in Spicer's Bound to Please (2 vols, 1867).
