Charles Dickens on newspapers…
June 15, 2009 by TimHughes
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The Boston Evening Transcript of July 21, 1862, has a front page article “Charles Dickens on Newspapers”, a speech he delivered in London at the Newsvenders’ Benevolent Institution. The lengthy speech takes two-thirds of a column and is filled with witty comments, and ends with: “…The newsman is to be meet with at every turn, on steamboats and in railway stations; his profits are small…he is indispensable to civilzation and freedom, and he is looked for with peasurable excitement every day…”.
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I have an Old Charles Dickens New Paper. I can’t find any thing about it, can you help me?
Its Title :The Life Of Our Lord
Its Dated : April 1, 1934
the Heading has some of the words in Red Ink, I have Three(3) News Paper there’s a lot of picture EX: The Last Supper, CHRIST AT THIRTY.
I have three Sunday editions of Charles dickens with photos like the last supper etc.
Can you give more specifics: Issue title, exact date, condition, completeness?