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LIB/LE/1/35
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LIB/LE/1/35
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Letter: W. C Macready to "Little Pickle", 20th Sept. 1844
26/09/1844
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'My dear little Pickle / I do not mean that you are really a pickle, which is a sour and hot thing, which you are not; but more like a preserve, which is made with sugar: - but I like to give nick-names to little girls, that I am fond of, and that is my reason for calling you "Pickle": - I shall // [line trimmed away / I am many many miles away, and that you may sometimes think of me, and then when you are very happy, I send you a little necklace and a little ring to wear at your little partiesd. - God bless you, dear little Pickle - always let me hear that you are very good, and I shall be happier on account of it. Your affectionate friend W.C. Macready'.
The letter presented to the Club by Edward & Isabella Watts, April 1973; which identifies 'Little Pickle as either Harriet or Grace Wilkes apparently of Washington Square in New York, their father a friend of Charles Dickens. "Little Pickle" is the name of a character in Bickerstaffe's 'Spoil'd child', 1792. Macready was on an American tour 1843-October 1844, at the time the letter was written.