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I would like to make a couple of comments on articles in the Autumn 1988 issue [ XV, 2 ]. Re the article on Cuthbert, Dickens uses intercourse to mean ' communication between people ' in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge says I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse to the third Spirit.
In an article by Cuthbert, Dickens uses intercourse to mean ' communication between people, in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge says I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse to the third Spirit.