BIB_ID
193130
Accession number
MA 4545
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1867 December 12.
Credit line
Gift of Robert White, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from "Westminster Hotel." Dickens was on a reading tour in the United States.
Provenance
Robert White was the great-grandson of Richard Grant White, a journalist and literary critic. He was also the grandson of the architect Stanford White.
Summary
Saying that he has not seen or heard of a published letter that White had referred to in his earlier note, but that he had never doubted White on the matter; declining to discuss the problem of international copyright: "I would rather put the subject aside, in friendship towards the American people. I said what I had to say about it when I was in the States years ago, and there I left it in all good humour;" saying that he appreciates White's comments on A Tale of Two Cities; mentioning that Thomas Carlyle had written him with "the highest commendation" of the novel when it came out; adding "He is a dear friend of mine, and his History [of the French Revolution] inspired me with the general fancy of that story."
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