Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6: Including a Record of a Variety of Thackerayana
Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6: Including a Record of a Variety of Thackerayana
James Grant Wilson
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The kindnesses and courtesies he has done for me and them I love are untold. When a dear friend of mine was lying on his death bed, helpless and poor, the man who has been accused of " cynicism," of " snobbishness," followed me from my lodgings at Brompton, to my Chambers in Clem- ents' Inn, and thence to a newspaper office in the city, with a cheque for the relief of one whom he had never seen, but whom he recognised as a brother author sick and in need. His charity did not stop at a cheque. H...e was an influential member of the Literary Fund, and he was mainly instrumental in obtaining, from that benevolent and much maligned corporation, a munificent grant towards the object he had at heart. God bless him for it, and not a line 32 THACKERAY IN shall I ever write against the Literary Fund, which I with reason as I thought on my side, had been denouncing for years. The instance I have ventured to notice could be capped, I am sure, by hundreds of others within the knowledge of those who really knew Mr.
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