BIB_ID
290437
Accession number
MA 106.42
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1842 Jan. 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.4 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.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Tremont House.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Tremont House.
Summary
Complaining that he has not had time to exercise or write on his trip to the United States; saying that he sent a long letter with some enclosures to [John] Forster; describing the strong reception he received in the United States: "it is nothing to say that they carry me through the country on their shoulders, or that they flock about me as if I were an Idol"; noting that they had a terrible passage; thanking him for giving them "peace of mind" that their children are "well cared-for, and thoroughly happy"; asking for news of Drury Lane.
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