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THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863), Autograph letter signed to Mr Parker, Philadelphia, 17 January n.y. [1852?], 3 pages, small 8vo (mounted on paper).
Written on one of his lecture tours in America, warmly appreciating a gift of cigars, 'the cigars will be smoked out (for they are uncommonly good and evanescent like all things of beauty) unless I make haste and thank the giver'. He goes on to show mock regret for having criticised Dickens, 'What an atrocious attack was that of mine on Dickens, saying he had robbed me of my children -- how shall I face him after such a charge against him'. Dickens and Thackeray quarrelled on many occasions, the most serious being when Thackeray asked the Garrick Club to expel Edmund Yates, a young supporter of Dickens.
Written on one of his lecture tours in America, warmly appreciating a gift of cigars, 'the cigars will be smoked out (for they are uncommonly good and evanescent like all things of beauty) unless I make haste and thank the giver'. He goes on to show mock regret for having criticised Dickens, 'What an atrocious attack was that of mine on Dickens, saying he had robbed me of my children -- how shall I face him after such a charge against him'. Dickens and Thackeray quarrelled on many occasions, the most serious being when Thackeray asked the Garrick Club to expel Edmund Yates, a young supporter of Dickens.
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