The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-08-26
The Dickens Domestic Anair.
The following letters are in circulation
among the friends Of Mr. and Mrs. Dick.

The following letters ar, in circulatio
among the friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dick.
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TAvisrocK Housx, TAvisrock SQrARE.
LONDON, W. e.. Tuesday, May Is, 1865.
NV Dear arthur: You have not only my
full permission TO show this, but beg you
TO show, " any one who wishes TO do me
right. or to any one who may have been
misled into doing me wrong
Faithfully, &C., g.. ID.
To Arthur SMITH, Esq.
TAvsrocK HoUsE, TAvIsroCk SQUARE,
LONDON, W. f., Tuesday, May 2j, 1858.
Mrs. Dickens and have lived unhappily
together for many years. Hardly any one
who has known us intimately can fail to
have known that We are, in all respects Of
character and temperament, wonderfully un
suited to each other. Isupposc that no two
people no, vicious In themselves, ever joined
together, who had greater difficulty in
understanding one another, or who had less
Ia common. An attached woman servant,
(more friend 10 both Of us than srvant,)
who lived with us sixteen years, md IL now
married. and who was, and still is in Mrs
Dickens confidence and in mine, who had
the closes, familiar experience Of this un.
happiness, in London, In the country, in
France in Italy wherever We have been,
year after year. month after month, week
after week, day after day, will bear testi.
mony to this.
Nothing has, on many occasions, stood
between US and separation but Mrs. Dick.
ems sister, Georgine Hogarth. From the
age Of fifteen she has devoted herself to our
house and our children. She has been their
playmate, nurse instructre~ friend, protcc-
tress, adviser and companion. In the manly
consideration to Mrs Dickens, which | owe
10 my vile, will merely remark that the
popularity Of her character has thrown oil
the children on some one clse. do not
know caDDot by any stretch Of fancy
imagine-what would have become Of them
but for this aunt, who has grown up with
them, TO whom they are devoted, and who
has sacrificed the b,st part Of her youth and
life 10 them
She has demonstrated, reasoned suffered
and toiled, and came again 20 prevent u
separation between Mrs. Dickens and me.
Mrs Dickens has often expressed 10 her her
sense Of her afectionate care and devotion
in the house oever more strongly than with
in these lat twelve months.
For some years past Mrs. Dickens has
been in the habit Of representing 10 me that
il would be better for her her 10 90 away,
and live apart that her always increasing
estrangement mad. mental disorder under
which she sometimes labors--more, tina, she
felt herself unfit for the life she had 10 lead
as my wife and that she would b. far better
away. have uniformly replied that We
must bear our misfortune and fight the fight
out to the end tina, the children were the
first consideration, and that feared they
must bind ~ together /" in appearance"
At ength. within these three weeks, II
Was suggested 10 me by Forster that even
for their sakes it would surely be better 10
reconstruct and rearange their unhappy
home. empowered him to ,res, with MrA
Dickens, ~ the friend Of both d N Tor one.
snd-tventy years Mrs. Dickens wished 10
add, on her part, Mark Lemon. and did ~.
On Saturday las, Lemon wrote to Forster
that Mrs- Dickens gratefully accepted
the terms proposed TO her.
Of the pecnaiary par, Of them ] will On.
ly cay that believe they are as generous ~
II Mrs- Dickens we're lady d distinction
sDd man of brtaDe. The remaining
psrts u them are easily describsd--my ED.
es, boy u live with Mn. Dickens and take
carr of ber my eldest gir 10 keep my
boass-bO,h my girls and all my childrn
but my eldest son ~ live with me. 10 tie
continued omurani0nship OF tbsir aunt
GeRgine. Tor whom they have all the teo-
dsrst at!rs1lon TIM, ] nave ever sen among
young people. and who has higher clam
Ia ! have oitsn declared for many yearj
upon my affection. respect ard gratitude,
than anybody IN this world
hope that no ooe Who may become &C
quan,ed with VIVA, write here can pssi.
bly he 30 eraa aud unjust ~ To pat any