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Douglas Jerrold to Mary Cowden Clarke, 10 October 1849
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Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Douglas Jerrold
Charles Dickens
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West Lodge, Putney, October 10th, 1849.

My dear Mrs. Clarke,—I know a man who knows a man (in America) who says, “I would give two ounces of Californian gold for two lines written by Mrs. Cowden Clarke!” Will you write me two lines for the wise enthusiast? and, if I get the gold, that will doubtless be paid with the Pennsylvanian Bonds, I will struggle with the angel Conscience that you may have it—that is, if the angel get the best of it. But against angels there are heavy odds.

I hope you left father and mother well, happy, and com-
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placent, in the hope of a century at least. I am glad you stopped at Nice, and did not snuff the shambles of Rome. Mazzini, I hear, will be with us in a fortnight. European liberty is, I fear, manacled and gagged for many years. Nevertheless, in England, let us rejoice that beef is under a shilling a pound, and that next Christmas ginger will be hot i’ the mouth.

Remember me to Clarke. I intend to go one of these nights and sit beneath him.—Yours faithfully,

Douglas Jerrold.