Charles Dickens account of his 1842 trip to America. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1842/00/00 | Charles Dickens | Visitor | 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 | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |
| 1842/00/00 | Charles Dickens | Visitor | 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 | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |
| 1842/00/00 | Samuel Gridley Howe | Subject in book | 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 | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |
| 1842/00/00 | Charles Dickens | Visitor | 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 | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |
| 1842/00/00 | Charles Dickens | Visitor | Charles Dickens visits the Fairmount Water Works | Fairmount Water Works | Philadelphia, PA | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |
| 1842/03/08 | Charles Dickens | Visitor | Charles Dickens witnesses solitary confinement and visits several prisoners at Eastern State Penitentiary outside Philadelphia. | Eastern State Penitentiary | Philadelphia, PA | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |
| 1842/10/19 | Charles Dickens | Author | American Notes is published | Charles Dickens' 1842 Tour of America | |||
| 1886/00/00 | Alexander Graham Bell | Consultant | Kate Keller seeks Dr Bell's help for Helen after recalling Dr Howe's work with deaf children at Perkins. She had read about Dr Howe teaching Laura Bridgman in 'American Notes'. Dr Bell says Helen could be helped at Perkins. | Perkins School for the Blind | Watertown |
| Particulars for American Notes: | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Writing Type | Travelogue | ||
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