Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Wilkie Collins, 1867 Dec. 2 and 3.

Discussing particulars relating to getting No Thoroughfare staged in the United States, mentioning that the "right of playing it in America can be secured by assigning the MS to an American Citizen." Proposing to arrange with [Lester] Wallack to have it produced in New York, and asking Collins to arrange with the "Star-actor" Lawrence Barrett [who first approached Collins and Dickens about this; see MA 93.135)] to take it to other American cities, noting that he is "a responsible man pecuniarily." Also mentioning that Dickens met with "one of the most knowing Managers in New York" [Henry David Palmer], and that his readings are going very well. With a postscript dated the following day (December 3), noting that the reading was "a most tremendous success last night" and that "the whole City is perfectly mad about it today."