Letter in a published collection (Chicago)

Note

Chicago-79

42. Dickens to Thomas Beard, 1 June 1840, in The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. Jenny Hartley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 65.

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens. Edited by Jenny Hartley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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  • Begin with the letter writer’s name. If the name is part of the book title, begin the note with only the last name, but begin the bibliography entry with the full name.
  • For the note, add the recipient, followed by the date in the day-month-year form (regardless of how it appears in the source).
  • Continue with the title of the collection and the editor’s or author’s name, following the guidelines for a selection in an anthology.

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