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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