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Discover Dickens through his work, his home and the things that mattered to him most
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Audio: Mamie Dickens on Dickens’s Tidy Nature
Dickens’s eldest daughter Mary, affectionately known as Mamie, shares in this extract her memories of Dickens’s love of neatness and beauty.
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Audio: The Earliest Known Letter by Dickens
Hear in this audio track the earliest known letter by Dickens written as a 13-year-old schoolboy in 1825.
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Search the Collections: Nursery
Discover more about the items displayed in this room by searching the Museum's collections database.