What is recorded here
The building was the office of Charles Smithson, the Malton solicitor with whom Dickens formed a close friendship. Dickens frequently visited Smithson in the town, and is said to have modelled Scrooge’s Counting House in A Christmas Carol on the premises.
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- Charles Dickens (Malton) Society
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