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Attribution from File 1645 of the Royal Literary Fund archive (British Library): application dated 30th October, 1878.

Attribution: Possibly by Frances Eleanor Trollope, see Dickens's letter to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, 13 September 1868, The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and others, Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002), XII, p. 182.

Based upon Raphael Brandon, Railways and the Public (London: Bell and Daldy, 1868).

Attribution: Dickens writes to Mackay on 15 September 1868. 'I have no doubt I shall be pleased with "Walks and Talks with the people". The MS will be found awaiting me at the Office tomorrow, I take it. Mephistopheles is already in', The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and others, Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002), XII, p. 183.

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Reprinted as 'The Ruffian' in collected editions of the series.

Matthew Arnold uses the word 'rough' in the euphemistic, softening sense Dickens objects to, throughout Ch. 2 ('Doing as One Likes') of Culture and Anarchy (1869), where he argues that 'the difference between an Irish Fenian and an English rough is ...immense', and that 'the Hyde Park rough' 'has not yet quite found his groove and settled down to his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes, bawling as he likes, hustling as he likes'.

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Attributed to Vizetelly on internal and external evidence (e.g. close parallels with passages in Vizetelly's later books on wine, Facts about Champagne (London: Ward, Locke, 1879) and A History of Champagne (London: Scribner & Welford, 1882). See David Parker, 'Champagne, All the Year Round and Henry Vizetelly' in Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-70 eds. Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard (Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press, 2013), pp. 201-10.