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- ↑ True sun (microform), National Library of Australia
- ↑ Dickens As A Journalist, The Dickens Fellowship
- ↑ Timperley, Charles Henry (1839). "libel suit against the True Sun". A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. p. 930.
- ↑ "Mr. Henry Hunt, having brought an action against the printer". The Spectator . 7 December 1833.
- ↑ PROSECUTION OF THE TRUE SUN. (Hansard, 23 July 1834)
- ↑ The Whigs and the Press: Report of the Trial of the Proprietors and Printer of the True Sun, for Recommending Non-Payment of the Assessment Taxes: Upon an Ex-officio Information Filed by His Majesty's Attorney-General. True Sun Office. 1834.
- ↑ "action brought against the True Sun". The Spectator. 8 June 1833.
- ↑ "The Court of King's Bench". The Spectator. 8 February 1834.
- ↑ Tait, William; Johnstone, Christian Isobel (1836). "D. Whittle Harvery, M.P., purchases The True Sun". Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Vol. 3. p. 808.
- ↑ The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - No. 14
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