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The two letters to Mr. Macready, at the end of this year, refer to a farce which Charles Dickens wrote, with an idea that it might be suitable for Covent Garden Theatre, then under Mr. Macready's management.
[Sidenote: Mrs. Charles Dickens.]
GRETA BRIDGE, Thursday, Feb. 1st, 1838.
MY DEAREST KATE,
I am afraid you will receive this later than I could wish, as the mail does not come through this place until two o'clock to-morrow morning. However, I have availed myself of the very first opportunity of writing, so the fault is that mail's, and not this.
We reached Grantham between nine and ten on Thursday night, and found everything prepared for our reception in the very best inn I have ever put up at. It is odd enough that an old lady, who had been outside all day and came in towards dinner time, turned out to be the mistress of a Yorkshire school returning from the holiday stay in London. She was a very queer old lady, and showed us a long letter she was carryin
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[2] Life Insurance Office.
[3] Mr. Macready'sβso pronounced by one of Charles Dickens's little children.
[4] T. P. Cooke, the celebrated actor of "William" in Douglas Jerrold's play of "Black-eyed Susan."
[5] This alludes to a theatrical story of a second-rate actor, who described himself as a "chained lion," in a theatre where he had to play inferior parts to Mr. Macready.
[6] "The Battle of Life."
[7]
Having had the privilege to see a letter which the late Mr. Charles Dickens wrote to the author of this work upon its first appearance, and which there was no intention to publish in England, it became my lively wish to make it known to the readers of my edition.
I therefore addressed an earnest request to Mr. Forster, that he would permit the letter to be prefixed to a reprint not designed for circulation in England, where I could understand his reluctance to sanction its publication. Its varied illustration of the subject of the book, and its striking passages of personal feeling and character, led me also to request that I might be allowed to present it in facsimile.
Mr. Forster complied; and I am most happy to be thus enabled to give to my public, on the following pages, so attractive and so interesting a letter, reproduced in the exact form in which it was written, by the most popular and admired-of writersβtoo early gone.
Leipsic,
May 23, 1873.
[8] The last illness of Mrs. White's mother.
[9] Dr. Gottfried Kinkel, a distinguished scholar and Professor in the University of Bonn, who was at that time undergoing very rigorous State imprisonment in Prussia, for political reasons. Dr. Kinkel was afterwards well known as a teacher and lecturer on Art in London, where he resided for many years.
[10] The part of the lawyer in "Used Up." It was not played after all by Mr. Watson, but by Mr. (now Sir William) Boxall, R.A., a very old and intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Watson, and of Charles Dickens.
[11] This part, finally, was played by Charles Dickens, junior.
[12] Mr. Stafford and Mr. Stopford, who both acted in the plays at Rockingham.
[13] Mr. Charles Knight was writing a series of papers in "Household Words," called "Shadows."
[14] The great Duke of Wellington's funeral.
[15] Meaning Mr. W. H. Wills himself.
[16] The poet "Barry Cornwall."
[17] "Hide and Seek."
[18] On the occasion of the Prince Consort's visit to the camp at Boulogne.
[19] Mr. Egg.
[20] The inscription on the house in Rochester known as "Watts's Charity" is to the effect that it furnishes a night's lodging for six poor travellersβ"not being Rogues or Proctors."
[21] Captain Cavendish Boyle was governor of the military prison at Weedon.
[22] Wife of the late Sir Joseph Olliffe, Physician to the British Embassy.
[23] Of Mr. Wilkie Collins.
[24] This note was written after hearing from Mr. Forster of his intended marriage.
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