DRUCE CLAIM.
EXTRACTS FROM MISS ROBINSON'S DIARY. < CONCERNING DICKENS; BY TELEGEATH—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COrTKIGHT. London, November 6. In connection with the claim of George HollambyePruce to tho dukedom of Portland, newspapers publish columns of extracts from the diary of Miss Robinson, the Now Zealand witness, who is alleged to have been private secretary to the late fifth Duko of Portland, and to have recorded in her diary his statement that ho was T. C. Druce. Tho namo of the novelist Charles Dickens is frequently mentioned in tho extracts. Tho "Daily Telegraph" has been authorised to stato that the Dickens family aro very annoyed, that they know nothing of tho circumstance narrated, and that they aro unaware that Dickons overy visited Welbcck Abbey (one of the Portland scats).
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 38, 8 November 1907, Page 5
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125DRUCE CLAIM. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 38, 8 November 1907, Page 5
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