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[...] the literature dealing with the 'Uncommercial' papers is fairly skimpy, and of the people who have written about them half hedge their bets: 'Granted, the suggestion is faint'; 'The signs may not be sufficiently focussed', 'not a close parallel to Pip's story'; and when a topnotch scholar like George Worth, in a piece on one of the essays, writes, 'Anyone looking for resemblances between the tone of The Uncommercial Traveller and that of Great Expectations may well be reminded by [Dickens's] emphasis on death, burial, and monuments in "City of London Churches" of the famous churchyard opening of the novel', perhaps the key phrase is the conditional 'Anyone looking for resemblances. ..'h The essays which have provoked the most thoughtful commentaries are not, as a matter of fact, the ones which are most characteristic of the series and provide it with its title, those in which the Traveller acts as a sort of roving reporter and social commentator - nostalgic, sardonic, meditative, always restless, always travelling - but the ones in which he returns - in person or memory - to the scenes of his childhood and which have been read, rightly or wrongly, as most transparently autobiographical: notably the essays entitled 'Dullborough Town' and 'Nurse's Stories'.