Dickens and America
[N remembering Dickens to-day, let us remember his connexion with America. When Dickens paid his first visit to the United States, in 1842 — a hundred years ago-a dinner was given in his honour in Boston. In acknowledging the hospitality accorded him, Dickens concluded his remarks with these words: "Gentlemen, I thank you with feelings of gratitude, such as are not often awakened and can never be expressed. As I understand it to be the pleasant custom-here to finish with a toast, I would beg to give you ‘America and England-may they never have any division but the Atlantic between them.’ And now for a parting word from America to-night-it is the hope and prayer of all of us here that far from being arrayed one against the other, we may stand together to preserve our two lands that we have learned to love so well, and join forces against any aggressor nation or nations that would challengs our peace and well being." Now, after a lapse of 100 years, we see that Britain and America-as Dickens hoped and prayed for, are joined to combat the forces of evil that are arrayed against themselves and the small nations.-("Charles Dickens,’ E. C. Harvie, vice-president of the Wellington Dickens Fellowship, 2YA, February 7.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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