Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1864-04-02
Dickens on Thackeray.
A GRAcEFrt AND ToucaISs TRIBUTE.

e"nai lrlenus OF the great English writer
who established this magnazine that is
brief record of hs having been stricken
from among men shnnId be written by the
old comrado and broth rnarms who pens
these lines, and OF whom he often wrote
hlmseIl, and always with the warmeot gen.
crosby.
81 saw him first, nearly twenty eight
years ago, when he proposed to botome
the illustrator Of my earliest book, | saw
hun last shortly before Christmas, at the
Athsnacum Club, when he told INC that he
nod been in bed three days-that after
these attacks he was troubled with cold
shlverngs which quite took the power Of
work out Of hm'-Nnd that he had it in bis
mind totly Il new remedy which be Iaug.
lngIy described. He was very cheerful
and looked very bright. In the night Of
that day week lie died.
"Ihc long interval between those two
periods is marked in my remembrance Of
him BY many occasions When he was 81.
premely humorous, when he was irreSisti.
OIy extrag"gant, when he was softel ed aud
serious, when he was charming with chill
dFen. But by none do recall him more
tendelIy than by two or three that start
mt oil the crowd, when he Unexpectedly
presented himself in my room, announcing
now That some passage in certain b,ok
al made him cry yesterday, aud how that
ne mad come to dinner, because he coLLIn't
hsIp II, aud must talk some passage over
No one can ever have seen him more rcp
al natural, cordial fresh and honestly i'm.
puISlve, than have seen him at those
times. No one canbe snrer than | Of the
greatness and the goodness Of the heart III At
then disclosed itself.
"We had our differences of opinion. |
thought TINT he to- much fcigned want
Of earocStness, aud that he made prctcncc
Of undertaking. his art, which was not
good for the art that he hrll in trust. But.
When be fell upon these topics, it was snever
very sravcly, aud have lively image Of
him IN nay mind, twisting both his hands
III his hair, and stamping about, laughIng,
To make nn end Of the discussion.
"When we we're associated in remem.
hrance o. the late Mr. Douglas Jcrrald, he
delivered pnblic lecture in London, in the
course of which he read his very best con
tribution 10 Punch, describing the grown
up cares OF a poor family ofyouug chl,Iren
No one hearing him conid have dnnhtcd
his natural geniIcness or his thoroughly
unaffected manly sympathy with the weak
aod lowly He read the paper most pathr.
hrally, and with a asimpicily of tenderness
that certain moved one oI his audience 10
tears This was presently after his stand
ing for Oxford, from which pmcc he had
dispatched his agent to me, with drolI
note to which he afterwards added yer
bal postscript urging me 30 come down
and make a aspeech, and tell them who he
was for he doubted whether more than two
Of the electors had ever heard of him, ami
~ e;,,L, nhn b.d I,h hpl "' ~ many "S s,A
dncaJ ,bo lnc,nrai" ",t''"' n,a,'; Wv ~ !4''o'
r,,oroneo =, h;s ~ j' ,;'! s"''o"eu ~,I' ="
Which va, r'l IL of % rooI o'Is'"'''','" .a, '"''"",
anJ I' 'r,od WI bnnor W., W. e''' ''"'V, s'Ou SP''''S
mIo bad na,,;o,l,.a,;l.. na,,
an oxcallart woy wi,I ,h,n' IVY : %''u '
w. W 'N1s''s%S Wy Wv" '"c"' 'eheU'per
"'s once nSN!Ig me WIN fantastic gravity,
w'1'' ,l, , ne ',sl oee" 70 hI'o' wlere my ct
ucS' ooy ''ich was whether leIt as no did
:" 1pgaru o' never seeing BOY without
wanting '"fttn''y 10 give hlm asoVerellgn'
! ! 'oo"snV o' 'nlS wIlpn ! ,"oSrd down INTO
,.' ! ave, o''p' nc was in'' m'fr' tor |
i.'oNtu , u''"' 'I''U @ u oyer VI" shoulder ol
Oog ,,T No W"o''l Is ll0u oeen k'nd'
iiif% ,.,S, are s,ignt 'emem'r"nces; bnt 1t
" " l',''y i ''ln',l"' '"l"gS suggestive OF the
tooq' looa, manner never, never more to
ce :. etco""'sreu ." '''" eSftn' 'nal Tue mnd
!, n's' % '"rn" III pereaVIneni, Ana greater
'H'ngS 'laV are Known ofhlm, in the way
y! Il" ""r.' allec'OlS, MS quiet endurance,
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