BIB_ID
290575
Accession number
MA 107.11
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 July 8.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
Dickens joke is referencing the May 1849 riot at the Astor Place Opera House in New York during the final performance of Macready's disastrous American tour.
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 107 for more information.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 107 for more information.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Summary
Noting that he heard that Macready was in town from Forster the previous day, and joking that Dickens was thinking of hiring 150 "free and independent republicans from the City of New York, to wait upon [Macready's] reappearances at the Haymarket" because he did not notify Dickens of his arrival himself. Enclosing (not present) something from Poole, who referenced [the French actor] Talma when he gave it to Dickens.
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