DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") TO WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859), Genoa, 12 April 1845. 3 pages, 12mo, slight chip along top edge, puncture on signature page (well away from signature) .
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") TO WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859), Genoa, 12 April 1845. 3 pages, 12mo, slight chip along top edge, puncture on signature page (well away from signature) . DICKENS LONGS TO DRINK ANOTHER MINT JULEP WITH WASHINGTON IRVING, "AS WE DISPOSED IN BALTIMORE" Dickens found little to like about the U.S.A. during his six month tour of the country in January-June 1842, but judging from this warm and affectionate letter, meeting Washington Irving was one of the few bright spots. It reads in full, "Captain Cunnyngham of the English army, who was aide-de-camp to Lord Saltoun in China, is leaving this place for a short trip to Spain; and I cannot forbear giving him this note to you. You will like him very much, I am sure; and it will be a happiness to me to see someone who has been in recent communication with you, as I hope he will have been, when he and I meet in England next midsummer. I wish I could hope to meet you there, or anywhere, my dear Irving, were it only for as short a time as would suffice for the dispatch of such another mint julep as we disposed of at Baltimore. But I don't despair of seeing your face, and shaking your hand again, one of these days, in some remote place or other. Mrs. Dickens sends you her love and hopes you have not forgotten her. I hope you have not Clarke's twin-brother either." Years later, during his second American tour, Dickens still fondly recalled "my dear friend Washington Irving" and "his delightful fancy and genial humour." And he still remembered the mint julep! "Some unknown admirer of his books and mine sent to the hotel a most enormous mint julep, wreathed with flowers. We sat, one on either side of it, with great solemnity (it filled a respectably-sized round table), but the solemnity was of very short duration. It was quite an enchanted julep, and carried us among innumerable people and places that we both knew. The julep held out far into the night, and my memory never saw him afterwards otherwise than as bending over it, with his straw, with an attempted air of gravity (after some anecdote involving some wonderfully droll and delicate observation of character), and then as his eye caught mine, melting into that captivating laugh of his, which was the brightest and best I have ever heard" (quoted in J. W. T. Ley, The Dickens Circle: A Narrative of the Novelist's Friendships ).
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") TO WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859), Genoa, 12 April 1845. 3 pages, 12mo, slight chip along top edge, puncture on signature page (well away from signature) .
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") TO WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859), Genoa, 12 April 1845. 3 pages, 12mo, slight chip along top edge, puncture on signature page (well away from signature) . DICKENS LONGS TO DRINK ANOTHER MINT JULEP WITH WASHINGTON IRVING, "AS WE DISPOSED IN BALTIMORE" Dickens found little to like about the U.S.A. during his six month tour of the country in January-June 1842, but judging from this warm and affectionate letter, meeting Washington Irving was one of the few bright spots. It reads in full, "Captain Cunnyngham of the English army, who was aide-de-camp to Lord Saltoun in China, is leaving this place for a short trip to Spain; and I cannot forbear giving him this note to you. You will like him very much, I am sure; and it will be a happiness to me to see someone who has been in recent communication with you, as I hope he will have been, when he and I meet in England next midsummer. I wish I could hope to meet you there, or anywhere, my dear Irving, were it only for as short a time as would suffice for the dispatch of such another mint julep as we disposed of at Baltimore. But I don't despair of seeing your face, and shaking your hand again, one of these days, in some remote place or other. Mrs. Dickens sends you her love and hopes you have not forgotten her. I hope you have not Clarke's twin-brother either." Years later, during his second American tour, Dickens still fondly recalled "my dear friend Washington Irving" and "his delightful fancy and genial humour." And he still remembered the mint julep! "Some unknown admirer of his books and mine sent to the hotel a most enormous mint julep, wreathed with flowers. We sat, one on either side of it, with great solemnity (it filled a respectably-sized round table), but the solemnity was of very short duration. It was quite an enchanted julep, and carried us among innumerable people and places that we both knew. The julep held out far into the night, and my memory never saw him afterwards otherwise than as bending over it, with his straw, with an attempted air of gravity (after some anecdote involving some wonderfully droll and delicate observation of character), and then as his eye caught mine, melting into that captivating laugh of his, which was the brightest and best I have ever heard" (quoted in J. W. T. Ley, The Dickens Circle: A Narrative of the Novelist's Friendships ).
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