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The Publishers beg to announce that in consequence of the occupation of Mr. Dickens's time with the story on which he is at present engaged, and which is now in course of publication, no Christmas Book by Mr. Dickens will be published this year, but that it is purposed to resume the series in December 1848.

1st December, 1847.