Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to William Charles Macready, 1849 Feb. 2.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to William Charles Macready, 1849 Feb. 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476842510

Mentioning the spat between Macready and the American actor Edwin Forrest; comparing America to the "something rotten in the State of Denmark" in Hamlet; discussing a dinner with [William Harrison] Ainsworth; referring to [Benjamin] Disraeli as a "circumcised dog"; informing him that Kate Dickens just gave birth to their sixth child; describing the use of choloroform as a painkiller during the delivery; discussing the forgery case of [William Henry] Barber; telling him he saw his wife [Catherine Macready]; noting that his sister Fanny Burnett's "deformed child" has died [this nephew was used as the model for Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol]; providing information about how all their friends are doing.

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.2 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7583517

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