Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America



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Y/M/D Description Place
1842/00/00 Charles Dickens spends a night the Exchange Hotel Exchange Hotel, Sandusky
1842/00/00 Charles Dickens visits Perkins during a lecture tour of America and writes about Dr Howe's work with deaf-blind student Laura Bridgman. Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown
1842/00/00 We halted once more at a village called Lebanon to inflate the horses again, and give them some corn besides: of which they stood much in need. Pending this ceremony, I walked into the village, - CD Lebanon, Illinois, Historic District, Lebanon, IL
1842/00/00 Returning to Lebanon that night, we lay at the little inn at which we had halted in the afternoon. In point of cleanliness and comfort it would have suffered by no comparison with any English alehouse, of a homely kind, in England. - CD Mermaid House Hotel, Lebanon, IL
1842/00/00 Charles Dickens visits the Fairmount Water Works Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA
1842/03/05 Kat and Charles Dickens arrive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1842/03/06 Charles Dickens writes to Edgar Poe from the United States Hotel, Philadelphia (423 Chestnut St, razed 1856) thanking Poe for sending him "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque". Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, PA
1842/03/07 Edgar Poe meets Charles Dickens at the United States Hotel (423 Chestnut St, razed 1856). Dickens agrees to try to find an English publisher for Poe's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque". Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, PA
1842/03/08 Charles Dickens witnesses solitary confinement and visits several prisoners at Eastern State Penitentiary outside Philadelphia. Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA
1842/03/12 Charles Dickens writes an epitaph for Charles Irving Thornton Charles Irving Thornton Tombstone, Cumberland
1842/10/19 American Notes is published

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