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Decoding Charles Dickens: Amateur sleuths helped decipher 1859 letter

Enlarge / Section of the so-called “Tavistock letter,” written by Charles Dickens in his idiosyncratic shorthand. The crowd-sourced transcription, now 70 percent complete, reveals a dispute between Dickens and The Times of London. (credit: Public domain) Last October, a collaboration called The Dickens Code project made a public appeal to amateur puzzle fans and codebreakers […]