With postmark and seal.
Part of a large collection of letters related to Charles and Catherine Dickens. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 104 for more information.
Mentioning books by [Jules] Michelet, [Alphonse de] Lamartine, [Herman] Melville, [Charles] Darwin; thanking him for sending her a copy of Charles Dickens' The Battle of Life; describing "that last tale of Dickens" [The Battle of Life?] as a "sad failure" and speculating that "he never wrote a word of it ... it is so much inferior to his ... Dombey and Son"; saying that Dickens came to visit her in Paris and she found him "the very man [she] expected, full of life and animation, but slightly spoilt by adulation"; noting that she thinks he is "too thoroughly English to be easily understood, appreciated, and liked by foreigners."