Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Prisons; Prisons; Prisons -- England -- London; Prisons in literature
p. 21: "ladders" for "ladlers" (long ladlers for scaling)
p. 23: "besieged" for "beseiged" (others beseiged the house)
p. 26: "buckets full" for "bucketsfull" (of which bucketsfull were
passed)
p. 33: "Sergeant" for "Sargeant" (Recorder and Common Sargeant)
p. 41: "indescribable" for "indiscribable" (with an indiscribable
feeling)
p. 44: inserted space (forming a part of NewgateMarket)
p. 52: added final closing quote mark (as much trouble as possible.)
p. 54: added period (Werry good That's a case)
p. 54: added final closing quote mark (I should like to see 'em.)
p. 55: removed final closing quote mark (the prisoner before him.")
p. 57: added final period (I suppose mine did)
p. 59: "pew" for "pen" (the 'condemned pen')
p. 59: "huge" for "hugh" (A hugh black pen)
p. 64: removed duplicate "desperate" (helpless, desperate, desperate
state)
p. 65: added period (linen cloth His red)
p. 67: changed opening double quote to single quote ("Here's somebody)
p. 76: "divagations" for "divigations" (in his pleasant divigations)
p. 77: "preferred" for "prefered" (debtors who prefered to preserve)
p. 80: added period (the charge of 1s. 3d a week)
p. 84: "gallon" for "galllon" (And stand a galllon)
p. 84: "Wat" for "Watt" (followers of Watt Tyler)
p. 94: added period (L3 6s 8d.)
p. 94: added period (7s 4d.)
p. 95: "Westminster" for "Westminister" (between Westminister Hall)
p. 95: guessed "are" as missing word (There other letters by Howel)
p. 102: removed duplicate "of" (the shadow of of the prison)
p. 125: "made" for "maade" (when he maade his first visit)
p. 126: "Clennam" for "Clenham" (Arthur Clenham looked)
p. 129: added missing opening quote (I came to Marshalsea Place,')
p. 137: added missing comma after "porter" (for porter gave me)
p. 137: "handkerchief" for "handerchief" (his pocket handerchief)
p. 139: removed duplicate "to" (a room to to himself)
p. 142: apostrophe for comma (Insolvent Debtors, Act)
p. 147: added missing opening quote ('No.' Would you like)
p. 171: "Hopkins's" for "Hopkin's" (of Captain Hopkin's voice)
p. 153: "rotten" for "rotton" (the rotton and reeking)
p. 154: "huge" for "hugh" (but that a hugh structure)
p. 171: "Dickens's" for "Dicken's" (At the time of Dicken's visit)
End of Project Gutenberg's In Jail with Charles Dickens, by Alfred Trumble
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