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MADISON, DOLLEY PAYNE. Autograph quotation signed ("D P Madison"), [Philadelphia, 19] April 1842; with a statement explaining the circumstances of the document, signed "Benj. M. Hollingshead." Each one page, 8vo, on the same stationery, a few small marginal tears, the Madison sheet browned.
A citation of Dickens: "Toast by Boz. Cold Water. That which was once employed to destroy the world, is now exercised as the means of resuscitating and adorning it." Dickens had been visiting the United States since January 1842, stopping in all the major eastern cities; Mrs. Madison would have met him in Washington or perhaps during this visit to the Hollinsheads in Philadelphia. No such meeting is mentioned in Benjamin Hollinshead's note, which simply describes the former First Lady's visit on April 19th.
A citation of Dickens: "Toast by Boz. Cold Water. That which was once employed to destroy the world, is now exercised as the means of resuscitating and adorning it." Dickens had been visiting the United States since January 1842, stopping in all the major eastern cities; Mrs. Madison would have met him in Washington or perhaps during this visit to the Hollinsheads in Philadelphia. No such meeting is mentioned in Benjamin Hollinshead's note, which simply describes the former First Lady's visit on April 19th.