Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1918 — OUT SLUMMING WITH DICKENS [ARTICLE]

OUT SLUMMING WITH DICKENS

American Guests Shown About Darkest London by Noted Writer Who Was Well Posted. "Doctor Howe and his bride went to Europe on their wedding trip on the same ‘Steamer with Horace Mann and his newly made wife, JMary Peabody, the sister of Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The teacher of Laura Bridgman was well known in England through Dickens’ ‘American Notes’ and people were anxious to de him honor. ■ <. ■ “Dickens not only invited the interesting Americans to dinner but he offered to pilot Doctor Howe and his brother reformer, Horace Mann, about darkest London,” writes Mary E. Perman in St. Nicholas, “and show them the haunts of misery and crime which no, one knew better than the author of ‘Oliver Twist,’ ‘Little' Dorrlt’ and ‘Bleak House.’ The following note written in Dickens* characteristic hand shows the zest with which the great novelist undertook these expeditions and his boyish love of fun: “ ‘Ninth June, 1843. “ ‘My dear Howe —Drive tonight to St. Giles’ church. Be there at half past eleven —and wait. Somebody will put his head into the coach after a Venetian and mysterious fashion and breathe your name. Follow that man. Trust him to the death. “ ‘So no more at present from “‘THE MASK.”’