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impossible to keep out speculators who immediately sell at 

 a premium. At the decreased rate of money, even, we had 

 above ;^45o English in the house last night ; and the New 

 York hall holds five hundred people more. Everything looks 

 brilliant beyond the most sanguine hopes, and I was quite 

 as cool last night as though I were reading at Chatham.' 

 After a few readings at Boston, he left for New York, 

 Washington, and Philadelphia, reading to immense audiences, 

 and being received with great enthusiasm everywhere. On 

 the nth December, he wrote to his daughter from New 

 York, ' Amazing success ! A very fine audience, far better 

 than at Boston. "Carol" and "Trial" on first night, great; 

 still greater " Copperfield " and " Bob Sawyer " on second. 

 For the tickets of the four readings of next week there were, 

 at nine o'clock this morning, three thousand people in waiting, 

 and they had begun to assemble in the bitter cold as early as 

 two o'clock in the morning.' He had some acute and 

 pertinent remarks to make regarding the New York news- 

 papers ! * The Tribune is an excellent paper ; Horace Greeley 

 is editor-in-chief, and a considerable shareholder too. All 

 the people connected with it whom I have seen are of the 

 best class. It is also a very fine property; but here the 

 New York Herald beats it hollow, hollow, hollow ! Another 

 able and well-edited paper is the Neio York Times. A most 

 respectable journal, too, is Bryant's Evening Fosf, excellently 

 written. There is generally a much more responsible and 

 respectable tone than prevailed formerly, however small may 

 be the literary merit, among papers pointed out to me as 

 of large circulation. In much of the writing there is 

 certainly improvement, but it might be more widely spread.' 

 The reading of ' Doctor Marigold,' in New York, in January 



