[These were the last public words of Charles Dickens.]
Footnotes:
{1} Sir David Wilkie died at sea, on board the Oriental, off
Gibraltar, on the 1st of June, 1841, whilst on his way back to
England. During the evening of the same day his body was committed
to the deep. --ED.
{2} The Britannia was the vessel that conveyed Mr. Dickens across
the Atlantic, on his first visit to America--ED.
{3} Master Humphrey's Clock, under which title the two novels of
Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop originally appeared.--ED.
{4} "I shall always entertain a very pleasant and grateful
recollection of Hartford. It is a lovely place, and I had many
friends there, whom I can never remember with indifference. We
left it with no little regret." American Notes (Lond. 1842). Vol.
I, p. 182.
{5} See the Life and Letters of Washington Irving (Lond. 1863), p.
644, where Irving speaks of a letter he has received "from that
glorious fellow Dickens, in reply to the one I wrote, expressing my
heartfelt delight with his writings, and my yearnings toward
himself." See also the letter itself, in the second division of
this volume.--ED.
{6} TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, then newly published in
collection of 1842.--ED
{7} "That this meeting, while conveying its cordial thanks to
Charles Dickens, Esq., for his presence this evening, and for his
able and courteous conduct as President, cannot separate without
tendering the warmest expression of its gratitude and admiration to
one whose writings have so loyally inculcated the lessons of
benevolence and virtue, and so richly contributed to the stores of
public pleasure and instructions.
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