- Brief description
- Letter from Catherine Dickens to Daniel Maclise, sent from America on 22 March 1842
- Label
- Dickens's wife Catherine writes to a family friend, the artist Daniel Maclise, from Baltimore during the couple's 1842 visit to North America. Maclise had painted a portrait of the Dickenses' children to take with them on the journey. Catherine says one man asked she give it to him. That man was Nathaniel Parker Willis, a poet and journalist for The New York Mirror, who shared Dickens's interest in tough international copyright laws. Changing copyright laws had been one of the motivators for Dickens to travel to America, although he was unsuccessful.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- B68
- Object type
- letter
- Production person
- Catherine Dickens
- Production date
- 22 March 1842
- Inscription content
- Dear Mr Maclise
I only add a word to put you in mind there is such a being in existence which I fear you have forgotten unless that heavenly portrait has awakened some dormant recollections. Pray write to us, you do not know what a delight it is to receive letters from our friends in this distant [land]. Does Marion still reign paramou[nt] in your heart or has some [other] bright being taken her place? It is just dinner time so [I] only add that I am alway[s]
Your very sincere frie[nd]
Catherine Dickens
My beautiful sketch of our dar[lings] is more admired than I can possibly describe. It is in great demand wherever we go and Willis the author actually asked me to give it to him imagine Such impudence! and audacity!
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