Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1869 — The Widow of the late Augustus N. Dickens. [ARTICLE]

The Widow of the late Augustus N. Dickens.

Mr. Charles Dickens has written the following note to the London News: “Sir:—l am required to discharge a painful act ©fAuty,*imposed upon me by your insertion in your paper of Saturday of a paragraph from the New York Times respecting the death, at Chicago, of ‘Mrs. Augustus’ N. Dickens, widow of the celebrated English novelist.’ The widow of my late brother, In that paragraph referred to, was iiever_at Chicago; she is a lady now living, and resident in London; she is a frequent guest at my house, and I am one of the trustees under her marriage settlement. My temporary absence in Ireland hus delayed for some days my troubling you with the request that you will have the goodness to publish this correction. I am, Ac., “Charles Dickens.” “Belfast, Jan. 14.” [Nevertheless, Augustus N. Dickens, “brother of Charles Dickens, the celebrated English novelist/’ lived with the deceased at Chicago, as his acknowledged wife for years, and never denied being the father of her three children, as we have heard.—Eds. Un- ....

A spellist conies out thuswise, in a late issue of the Pontiac, Michigan, Jacksonian: “HoLLX, Dec. 30, 1868. “Mr. Editor:—l propose to spel with enny man womern, or boy in OU'land county for 1100 aside, the wqMs to be Dejected by a cominitY of literary gents, aud the prise to be rewarded by the empires to the one who mises the fewist words. — If ypn here of euny one wlio darrs to.take up this cbaierige, let them, pitch in, solns bolus. I’m redy, , Yours, etc., “Absalom Sbxafx.”