BIB_ID
289485
Accession number
MA 94.22
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1843 Feb. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Dickens to his contemporaries. Items in the collection are described separately. See MA 94 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and the sketches; describing a drunkard who becomes "maudlin and Byronical" at a London public house; apologizing for "having thought [Bell] hard on Americans"; speculating that America would be "a very different place at this hour" were it not for "the obstinacy of that swine-headed anointed of the Lord -- his Majesty King George the Third."
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