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Chaps. ii-iii.

Contents partially recorded in Office Book, then marked out because of error and recorded anew, still incorrectly. In the cancelled listing, the names Dodd Capper (no ampersand) stand in the author column for "Electric Light"; in the uncancelled listing, Miss Procter's name, through misalignment, stands in that position. The misrecording results in the absence of payment notation for "Electric Light".

Based on Richard Parkinson, A Tour in America (1805).

Dickens's lifelong passion for The Arabian Nights, expressed most notably in his essay 'A Christmas Tree' (first published in HW, 2 December 1850, subsequently included in Reprinted Pieces; now usually collected with Christmas Stories), enables him to write with consummate ease the following 'fine little bit of satire', as he calls it in a letter to Forster (Pilgrim, Vol. VII, p. 581).

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Turgenev, A Sportsman's Sketches, 1854  French trans.

Chaps. vi-vii.

Based on A rich storehouse or treasurie for the diseased: wherein, are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue bin long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set foorth for the great benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilitie to go to the phisitions, by A.T. And now newly corrected, augmented and inlarged, by G.W. practicioner in phisicke and chirurgerie (1601).

Based upon Robert Dodsley, A Muse in Livery, or, The Footman's Miscellany (first edition published February 1732).