The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-29
DICKENS VERY LAST LETTER.
More Interesting "reminiscences.
Anecdote Of President Lincoln.
Dickens Visits to America.
CHARLES DICKENS.


s Ls.. Ls.ssrTGs Nsysi;s 81 FaS'u Oral E9Oy
From the London Attenoeunn.
Mr. Charles Kent has kindly consented to our
printing what is IN all % ne ban s ster @ tnat
went to keep the appointment, Mr.. Dickens was
lying unconscious, and was within very few hours
Of his death. The "opal enjoyments" refer to the
tints OF the sky
GAD's HILL PLACE, H1eHAM ;By ROCHESTER, KENT,
tomorrow bad day 70 m IKE call, as. in
to bat GsS Sy Be ey for yOa
3oclock II i cant be.why, then 1 shsnt be- I'M,
You must really get rid of those opal enIoyments They
'i0 wv SfSese violent delights have violent endsm
wise remark a young gentleman who got up early (or
stayed out A'o at hysf caAREES biSKENs
The pictures and other objects OF art which be-
longed to Mr.. Dickens are to be sold by auction by
> essrs. Christie and Manson His library he has
left to his eldest His manuscripts and papers
at present in the hands OF his executors, Mr..
Forster and Miss Hogarth.
At the present moment 1t Is dihcult to speak with
entire precision, but we are authorized to say that
Mr. Dickens has left "The Mystery of Edwin Droodp'
in Very advanced state, but that, as If he had
presentiment of his decease, he had at the outset
arranged equitable terms OF accommodation In case
The novel was stopped before 1t was completed.
Wore Reminis &C ences-His Visit to America. =.
I've London papers continue to give "reminiscences
Of Dickens. The editor OF the Graphic relates some
particulars of his personal acquaintance with the
"The first time 1 saw the dolized Boz in the
flesh was at fancy fair in nth, the Painted Han Of
the Shipwrecked Mariners Society. He was then
a handsome young man, with piercing bright eyes,
and carefully arranged hair much Ia fact, as he is
represented in Macses picture. The last tmeI
saw him was few weeks since, when / had the
pleasure OF meeting him at dinner. To all outward
| appearance he then looked like q man who
! would live. and work until he was fonr-score. |
vivacify OF bis eyes There seemed as much lie
aud animation in them In twenty ordinary pairs Of
eyes. was also struck by his sailor-lise aspect
nppn nltarit itu 0ha ~ ma
except his two voyages to America, he had not been
much on the sea, and was not, believe, particu-
for seamen, and think, without being fancifui,
that his nautical air may In part be attributed to
Mr. Dickens cOnversed with me chiefly about Mr..
Carlise's writings for whose French Revolution he
expressed the strongest admiration as he has prac-
tj,ally shown ia his Tale OF Two Cities aud ne
also 1eated some interesting anecdotes one OF which
70 I N.Y. Dickens BY the e' late Mr. Edwin stanton the
famous Secretary OF War in the United States Cabi
net. On Good Friday, 1865, there was Cabinet
council at Washington, and Mr.. Stanton chanced
TO enter the council chamber some time
alter the other members had assembled.
As he entered he heard the President say,
We'll, gentlemen, this is only amuse-
mtnt. ] think we had better turn to business
During the meeting he had noticed that Mr.. Lincoln
remarkably grave and sedate; and that instead
of stroling about the room as was his usual WON'T
dealing out drol remarks he sat bolt upright in his
chair. on leaving the council Mr.. Stanton asked
one of the other Ministers why the Presidents man
ner was so peculiar and and received the following
w
! Lincoln said: - "Gentlemen, dreamed
strange dream last night for the third time, and
on each occasion something remarkable has fol-
lowed upon it. After the first dream came the battle
OF Bull Run tMr. Dickens could not remember the
second evenr and now the dream has come again.
dreamed that was in boat on lake. drifting
along without either oars or sails, when" At
this moment you, said the Minister, addressing Mr.
stanton, .opened the door, whereupon the President
checked himself and said, 81 think we had better
of The dream. And il was lost forever. The COUNCIL
met at ~ O'Clock, and on the same evening Presi-
sldent Lincoln lay dead slain by the pistol-shot OF
here. we % shall never Know % the end OF NJ Lncolns
! dream, and the "Mystery of Edwin brood" remains
also an inscrutable mystery, parted from us by the
| impenetrabe curtain OF death.
Dickens as "a Man of Science.
| From the British Medical Journal, June IT.
How true to nature, even to their most trivial de.
lis, almost every character and every incident in
The works Of the great novelist whose dust has just
been laid to rest really is best known to those
whose tastes or whose duties led them to frequent
! the paths Of life from which Dickens delighted to
draw. But none, except medical men, can Judge OF
ne rare fidelity with which he followed the great
} Mother through the devious paths OF disease and
death. In reading "oliver Twist and 'Dombey and
Son" or the Chimes or even mo Thoroughfare,
he physician often felt tempted to say, dWhat
gain It woud have been to physic II one so keen to
powers to the medical arti" II must not be
forgotten that his description OF hectic (r
"ohyer Twst'9 has found It's way into more thar
(Miller's Principles OF Surgery" second edition, p
46; also Dr. Atkins "Practiee OF Medicine" thirt
French books); that he anticipated the clinical
searches OF M: Dax Broca, and Hughlings Jackson
on the connection OF right hemiplega with asphyXis
(uids "Dombey and Sem for the last Illness OF Mrs
Skewtonl and that his descriptions OF epilepsy il
! Walter Wildng, ana OF moral and mental insanity II
characters too numerous to mention show the hanC
of msster. IL is feeble praise to add that he wa
always just, and generally generous, to our profes
si0u.
Even his descriptions of our Bob Sawyers, ant
their less reputable friends, always wanted tn,
coarseness, and let us add, the unreality of Alber
Smiths; so that we ourselves could well afford x
laugh with the man who sometimes laughed at us
but laughed only as one who loved us. One of th,
later efforts OF his pen TO advance the Interests
OF the East London Hospital for Children; and hi
sympsthies were absent from the sick and SUI
ferilR OF every age.