BIB_ID
290439
Accession number
MA 106.43
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1842 Mar. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.2 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.
Summary
Hinting that he thinks Macready "view[s] America through the pleasant mirage which often surrounds a thing that has been, but not a thing that is"; saying that he burned his last letter to Macready because he did not want to offend "those who have so enthusiastically and earnestly welcomed" him; explaining that the United States "is not the Republic [he] came to see"; noting that "in every respect but that of National Education, the country disappoints" him; complaining that the American press is "more mean and paltry and silly and disgraceful than any country ever knew"; mentioning the American reaction to Harriet Martineau; reporting that he has been "horribly disgusted by tobacco chewing and tobacco spittle"; describing his American itinerary; mentioning John Forster and David Colden.
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