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EX-COPY BOY IN MELBOURNE. (By C*b!e.—Pt*m Awociaiioo.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, January 26. Mr J. S. "Woolcott, of Brighton, one of the oldest residents of Australia, told an interviewer that he acted as "copy-boy" to Charles Dickens, and carried his manuscripts to Chapman and Hall's, wrapped in brown paper and loosely tied. On one occasion he undid the string and read the manuscript, which was the eceno between Sam Weller and his father, where Sam read his "walentine." 3lr Woolcott came to Australia in 1851.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 7
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85A DICKENSIAN LINK. Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 7
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