BIB_ID
290400
Accession number
MA 106.25
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1840] Aug. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 106 for more information.
The letter is dated "Monday"; the year is from House, Storey, and Tillotson.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
The letter is dated "Monday"; the year is from House, Storey, and Tillotson.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Thanking him for a book; mentioning that "Tuesday the Twenty Fifth shall ... be the day" [of Kate Macready Dickens' christening]; alluding to a fight between Dickens and John Forster at dinner the night before and thanking Macready for his intervention; observing, "The more I think of it, the more I feel confident in the belief that there is no man, alive or dead, who tries his friends as [Forster] does."
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