Chapter 8
Charles Dickens, “In Memoriam,” in The Cornhill Magazine, Feb 1864. *44W-3196.E |
Charles Dickens, “In Memoriam,” in The Cornhill Magazine, February 1864. In the spring of 1863, Thackeray, who had become close to Dickens’s daughter Kate, repaired his relationship with his literary rival. “We have been foolish long enough,” Thackeray told him, holding out his hand, which Dickens “grasped...very cordially.” While not friends, they were no longer hostile towards one another. After Thackeray’s death, Dickens wrote this memorial to him in Cornhill, remembering Thackeray’s “warm affections, his quiet endurance, his unselfish thoughtfulness for others, and his munificent hand.”
*44W-3196. Gift of W.B.O. Field, 1949. |