DICKENS' COPY BOY.
ALIVE IN AUSTRALIA. BY KLrCTRTC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. "viTFrt P".KSP » FSOCIATION Received January 26, 9.55 a.m SYDNEY, Jan. 26. Mr J. S. Woolcott, of Brighton, one of the oldest msidents of Australia, in an interview told a reporter that he acted as copy boy for Charles Dickens a.nd carried his manuscripts to Chapman Hills wrapped in brown paper. The parcel was loosely tied and on one occasion he undid the string and read the manuscript. It was the scene tween Sam Weller and his father in which Sam Tead his "walentine." Mr Woolcott came to Australia 1861,
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Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1914, Page 5
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99DICKENS' COPY BOY. Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1914, Page 5
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