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Lot #: 5057

Cover from Legendary English novelist, Charles Dickens, to English Actor William Macready

Written During Dickens' Second Reading Tour in America
10c Dark Green on 1868 cover from New Haven, CT to Cheltenham, England. Addressed in renowned English novelist, Charles Dickens', hand to famed English actor, and close friend, W. C. MACREADY.

Not only were the two close friends, but Dickens was also godfather for Macready’s son Henry and Macready was godfather to Dickens’s daughter, Kate Macready Dickens.

This cover with seal, addressed in Dicken's hand is postmarked, New Haven, Ct., March 24 1868 with "By Cunard from New York Wednesday 25 March 1868" in manuscript in upper left hand corner.

The New Haven postmark reveals that this cover was written during Dicken’s second Reading Tour in the US.

The letter that was accompanied by this cover is featured and transcribed in The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870, and shares of Dicken’s experience traveling in America.
Opening: $150
Estimate: $500
Category: US Postal History, Transatlantic
Catalogue: ASCC 68a on Patriotic Cover not listed
Catalog Value: $500
Provenance: Ex McBride/R&R Enterprises
Obtained from R & R Enterprises and so warranted in their description as having been in Dicken's hand.