Autograph letter signed : London, to William Charles Macready, [1840] Aug. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to William Charles Macready, [1840] Aug. 17.

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Thanking him for a book; mentioning that "Tuesday the Twenty Fifth shall ... be the day" [of Kate Macready Dickens' christening]; alluding to a fight between Dickens and John Forster at dinner the night before and thanking Macready for his intervention; observing, "The more I think of it, the more I feel confident in the belief that there is no man, alive or dead, who tries his friends as [Forster] does."

1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Forster, John, 1812-1876

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Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929

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Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873

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