New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-17
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honest kind, that people viii Ike; Inc o9n IL
shoT now e"ms exrsmey we'll weird sharpness
not without beauty Is the thing want
HIS FRIENDS.
Many indications are given of the wide range OF
Dickeus's friendships and OF the warmth OF Ms anec-
tons Honor love and troops OF friends came to hn IN
cary life. Macready's Is often met, and Dickenss
love for him appears have been OF the deepest Inc
first letter dated 1887 and addressed rather FORM
ally, Ny dear Sir" IL Is an invitation 10 dllncr
which lie gave to celebrate the conclusion of the "fck-
wick Papers" lie incloses one of the first complete
COMICS OF the work TaOurd, Forster, Answorth, and
the publishers to be present Seven years later he
writes again to Macready who Is about TO return home
from his trip TO America:
Please Heaven, VIII he at Liverpool when you come
stcamlng up the Merscy. with that red funnel smoking
uuucrabc things and he art much fuller than
your trunk though somewhat lghter II | be not the
first Englishman shake hands with YOU on English
ground the man who gets before me viii be brisk ana
most so warn Forster 10 keep in the rear or he II ne
blown. Kate sends her tender love y So COS
does Walter does the other who Is 10 DC porn
next week. Look homcwdrd always as we look ABROAD
TO YOU
Macready had lectGring project in his mind which
Dickens dscoura gcd. In his Judgment IL was not to
be thought Of" and he bad not tho slightest doubt or
hestat IN in giving his "most strenuous ana decided
advice against it," He tells him. in that rd.c you are
of your pedestal, have flung away your glass slipper.
and changed your triumphal coach into seody Old
rutnphn." The letters 10 Mr.. Forster naturally
number since the most that he wrote To hiia are
already before the world Oac letter relates 10 Forsers
Goldsmith" which Dickens had just read He calls 1t
noble achievement" and this apart from private ana
personal affection, and then adds:
.fnrffI a1fa that hook Nrqe
anything done said, half so conducive 10 me
ventures Of Oliver Goldsmith" by J. T., of the Inner
Temple. The gratitude OF every man WHO is cnnten 20
rest his station aud claims quietly on literature ana 10
make TENT OF living 10y any thing cise your due lOr
cyermore.
To another friend he relates that when Forster on
certain time was i'll he asked by him to read aloud
one night Forster lay in bed "something OF Gold
smiths" He fell upon she soors to Conquer, and
1--WE enjoyed with that wonderful intensity that
believe he began get better IN the first scene and was
all right again N n 1ith act.' Wikie Collins was
another friend who shared Dickcns's love. zone Of
these days. please God" he says, 1--WE may do
a stony together; Ihaye very odd haifformed notions
ID a mist, OF something that might he done that way
Al Paris when had been sitting four hours 10 Schcf
fer for the portrait he wrote:" am so addlcheadcd
and bored, that if YOU here, 1 should pro-
pose instantaneous rush TO the IrOs flcres
Under existing circumstances I have no con-
ISOLATION" In Paris lie made great lion Of
and the way in wlich mysterious Frcnchmen called
and wanted 10 embrace him suggests, ne says, to
one WHO knows him intimately, infamous lurking
Sinking, getting behind doors evadng. lying mean
resort TO craven flights. bastard sub;erfugcs and
miserable poltroonery. his part. Again he writes TO
Collins that nc has made "Bas's" acquaintance
with great qualification, and entertains high respect
for him. And hope" he continues. q" that shall
become intimate with many worthy descendants Of his
who yet III the limbo OF creatures waiting 10 be
born" To Ny Dear Sianfed" ClarksOn Stanned, the
paintcr) he wrote 1874: 81 love you 50 truly and
such pride and joy of heart in your friends hip, that
don't know how to begin writing to you" He adj
dresses him my Dear stanny" and signs himself
"DIokey." Mark Lemon is addressed as Ny Dear Old
Boy"
Thore is letter TO Thackcray. but it has no
special interest. 1t is the only the editors pos
sscd and is given because they are glad TO have the
two names associated together tils work" II b.
gins. Ny Thackeray." dated February .. 1858
ana Closes Ever faithfully" When ThackcTay died,
ID .ckens wrote to Collins: " You Will have read
about poor Thacker.ys death-suGdcn and yet not
III den, for he had long been aiaImngly III. At
the solicitation Of Mr.. Smith and some OF his
friends, have done what would most gladly have OK
cused myself from doing, il felt cOuld-wrten Il
couple OF pages about him in what was ms own
zire.' Dickens once asked by a person whose
name is mol given, 10 use his influence Lin
pouiion. lie declined the ground that he
buIdcncd with similar requests when lis time well
occupied other ways, and added that he could no
little under any circumstances The applicant had
already asked Thackeray. OF this, Dickens says
when you suppose would have cost Mr.. Thackcray
but a word TO use his influence TO obtain YOU some
curaiorship or Ike you iii with the of
possibility of leading you to charitable judgment
Of Mr. Dickens"
One unimpOrtant letter is given from Balwer LyttOn.
The present Lord u ttOn beng in India and his
father papers III England, II was impossible to obtain
them Iutimation given that they may the light
fuf day nsr a lcru nYoI
ised To CARLYLE there letters, though his name
IS mentioned few times Dickens held Carlyle in high
esteem, and Mr. Forster allrms that " there
one whom late life he BOnored so much" having
said: would 20 at all times further to Carlyle
than any man alive" The esteem mutual for when
the novelist died the philosopher said lie had known
him near thirty years. and every meeting convinced
him and more of Ills rare and great worth "A
brother man." D!ckens's death was an event world
wide," and death since 1866 had fallen on him with
such stroke. No literary mans hitherto did"
lie called him the noble Dickens every inch of him
the honest man"
HIS TWO VISITS 10 AMERICA.
The American public knows very well already what
Dickens thought this country when he in
ls4l-'42. Some of the letters which he sent home
the spun of the moment Will nave especial interest.
though their viii give little pleasure 10 any Amer-
can admircr OF his. To Macready he says;
am disappointed. Tnis is not the republic came 70
see; this is not the republic OF my imagine ton. n
nniiey prefer liberal monarchy-even with IT'S sick
enlng accOupaniu vi court crcles-to such gov
:. nment this Tne more think OF Its youth aud
strength, the poorer ana more trlniug in thousand
aspects appears In In everything which
Il las made housekeeping its education Of the
people and its Tor poor chdrenii sinks immeas-
uraDly below the Level had placed II upon ana Eng
and England. bad and faulty as the old land
luu miserable millions VI Der people rises the
comparison.
lou 1--we here, Macready. as have sometimes heard
you imagining! You! Loving you with all my heart
and soul aDd knowing what your disposition really L.,
would condemn yOu TO years residence tins side
Of ami Ip al a.
Where Is IL more mean, aud paltfy, and
silly. and dIsgI than any country ever knew. -
10 IL. / nd lcc Hmm