BIB_ID
290756
Accession number
MA 107.63
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1863 Sept. 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "CD." Docketed.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "CD." Docketed.
Summary
Agreeing that Macready "should remain at home for the present," and noting that even were he to visit, London is "remarkably empty" and Macready probably would be unable to see the doctors he means to consult. Hoping that Macready will visit in the fall. Referencing a disagreement between Macready and Forster, and conveying the message that Forster believes he was wrong, and is sorry for it. Describing their conversation, in which stated that "we were all growing older, and that it made him uneasy to think of the terms on which [Macready] and he stood," and noting that Forster "spoke with emotion, and feeling, and evidently on no impulse, but in pursuance of a set purpose."
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