BIB_ID
290631
Accession number
MA 107.25
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1856 July 8.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 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 107 for more information.
The Katie referenced was Macready's daughter. The poem, "The Shadow of the Hand," was published in Household Words on 26 July 1856, p. 38.
Written from Villa des Moulineaux, Boulogne. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
The Katie referenced was Macready's daughter. The poem, "The Shadow of the Hand," was published in Household Words on 26 July 1856, p. 38.
Written from Villa des Moulineaux, Boulogne. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Summary
Agreeing to publish Katie's poem and discussing his work on Little Dorrit. Noting that Stanfield and Cunningham intend to visit Dickens in Boulogne, and wishing that Macready were to visit as well. Suggesting Macready read the next installment (in Household Words) of The Diary of Anne Rodway by Collins, praising it as "possess[ing] great merit and real pathos." Mentioning that Dickens knows of "noting of public interest that is new in France, except that [he is] changing [his] mustache into a beard."
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