BIB_ID
290476
Accession number
MA 106.55
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1844 Jan. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23 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 Devonshire Terrace.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Reminiscing about visiting Macready at the theater; describing a birthday party; telling Macready he should not do a course of lectures in the United States; condemning the press in the United States; noting, "I never knew what it was to feel disgust and contempt, 'till I travelled in America"; telling him he sent him a copy of A Christmas Carol; saying that he intends to meet Macready's steamer on its return from the United States; asking him to burn this letter. The letter mentions [John] Forster, Catherine Dickens, and Dickens' children.
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