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Show Only Dickens Statue A statue of Charles Dicken3 and little Nell, one of his famous characters, char-acters, is in Clark park, at Forty-third Forty-third street and Baltimore avenue, in West Philadelphia. It is the only one ever made of the novelist. Says a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Inquir-er, because his son discovered a clause in his will asking "never on any account to make me the subject sub-ject of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatever." The work is by F. Edwin Elwell. It was exhibited exhibit-ed at the World's Columbian exposition, exposi-tion, where it received a gold medal. |