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Charles Dickens’s final Christmas turkey lost by Great Western Railway

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, December 18, 2019 | 7:39 AM

Rediscovered letter records that 30lb bird was dispatched by train but transferred to a replacement coach service that caught fire

Charles Dickens’s stoic response to the destruction of his Christmas turkey in a train fire has been revealed in a letter rediscovered at the National Railway Museum in York, in which the author says he “bore the loss with unbroken good humour towards the Great Western Railway Company”.

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