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In part from Bayard Taylor, Eldorado (1850).

Johann Georg Kohl, Reisen in den Niderlanden (1850).

Dickens probably wrote the following sections of 'The Old Lady in Threadneedle Street': the opening paragraph; from 'The music of golden thousands' to 'old rags' (p. 337); from 'They are like the caves' to 'shrewd suspicion!' (p. 340); from 'The descent' to 'surprise and consternation' (p. 341) ; from 'Here, standing in a great long building' to 'hay-stacks as are rotting here!' (p. 341).
Dickens may also have written or rewritten portions of the following passages: from 'This Old Lady' to 'that of touch' (p. 337); from 'The apartment' (p. 339) to 'into the streets' (p. 340).
The collaboration in this article is especially deft; Dickens seems to have had a hand in many additional passages. For a discussion of the Dickens-Wills attributions, see headnote to 'Valentine's Day at the Post-Office.'

Harry Stone; © Bloomington and Indiana University Press, 1968. DJO gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce this material.

In the main from William Downing Bruce, [...] on the Condition and Unsafe State of Ancient Parochial Registers, 1850.

A. A. Ledru-Rollin, The Decline of England, 1850.

From R. G. Gordon-Cumming, Five Years of a Hunter's Life in [...] South Africa, 1850.