BIB_ID
290907
Accession number
MA 107.81
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1869 July 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 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 "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Summary
Reporting that his health is very good, and that scarcely a day has gone by that the Dickens' family do not talk of the Macreadys. Mentioning that Harry has taken a scholarship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, that Wills has retired "in consequence of his broken health," and that Charley is the new sub-editor of All the Year Round. Describing a sermon in which the curate [the Rev. Lewis Price] noted that "Our Saviour will very shortly appear upon earth 'to assert and avenge himself,'" and exclaiming "pretty well this, within 30 miles of London, halfway through 1869!!!" With a postscript mentioning Forster's health.
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