BIB_ID
290530
Accession number
MA 106.73
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1846 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
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.
Summary
Referencing Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy; discussing the "late Revolution" in Switzerland and saying that "there is no country on earth but Switzerland, in which a violent change could have been effected in the Christian spirit shown in this place, or in the same proud, independent, gallant style"; joking with Macready about his mountaineering skills; telling him he had a letter from [Douglas] Jerrold; noting that Madame Tussaud "intends to do [John] Forster next" and that "he is to be put next to [Edmund] Burke, in the Chamber of Horrors"; saying that he is glad Macready is pleased with Dombey; mentioning his success "in the Animal Magnetic way."
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