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Author: Albert Smith
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Author: Charles Dickens
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Author: Albert Smith
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Relating two "whimsical anecdotes...which you won't find in the Newspapers;" telling him that he had heard that "...Ingram was going about town declaring like a madman as to his wildness and ferocity, that there was not a penny to be got out of the London Journal by anybody but the Paper-Maker, and that he (Ingram) would never be safe from ruin; until he had got rid of 'the whole gang of bluid-soockers, beginning with ' - O! whom do you think? - Mark Lemon'!!!;" relating a letter from his son, Frank Dickens, who wrote to him from the boat he was taking to a school in Hamburg, describing his time with the Captain when the person who was supposed to meet him at the boat did not turn up; saying that since the letter arrived "...he has never been heard of. My own impression is, that he will sail backwards and forwards in the John Bull, like a Young Flying Dutchman, for many years, and will vainly try, until he arrives at a green old age, to get to School. Either this will happen, or a fraudulent and ill-conducted school will kidnap him on false pretences, or he will work out the usual story-book career by entering Hamburg without any boots, selling matches in the streets, gradually realizing an enormous fortune, and finally laying it out in endowing an establishment for 80 one-eyed old men with wooden legs, who will never get anything that he bequeaths to them, but will be pillaged by fifteen trustees in the Banking and Legal lines of life who will live and die in great esteem on the plunder;" adding a line of Chinese characters and asking "Do you understand the following Chinese sentence yet? It is a poetical idea, I think, and very expressive of the general virtues of the Tea Plant. Is it really in the works of their great poet;" adding three additional Chinese characters; wishing him a happy trip back to England.
Author: Albert Smith
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Author: Albert Richard Smith
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Dickens had sent this note to Peter Cunningham, writing his ALS to Cunningham, dated, Folkstone, oct. 9, 1855 on p.[3] of Smith's letter. Relates to Thackeray's dinner[1855 Oct.?] 3.
Author: McNee, Alan
Publisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
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Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you’ve probably never heard. During his lifetime, he was a household name, thrilling audiences with his Ascent of Mont Blanc show at London’s Egyptian Hall. An inveterate showman, Smith was also a doctor, journalist, raconteur, novelist, travel writer, and playwright. His many talents were outstripped only by his boundless self-belief and huge personality. Even Queen Victoria described him in her journal as “inimitable”, an epithet Smith’s contemporary Charles Dickens liked to reserve for himself. Although Smith died aged only 43, he managed to pack much incident into his short life. He was robbed by highwaymen in Italy, narrowly escaped death in a hot air ballooning accident, and dodged arrest in Paris during the June Days Uprising of 1848. He also got caught up in the row over Dickens’s affair with Ellen Ternan. While his bumptiousness made Smith a divisive figure, many saw in him the Victorian ideal of the self-made man: energetic, imaginative, and ready to seize any new opportunity. As Alan McNee explains in this lively biography, it was his intrepid ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851 that propelled Smith to stardom. His subsequent show inspired ‘Mont Blanc mania’, encouraging participation in mountaineering as a popular pursuit. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps is a story of ambition, spectacle, and the fleeting nature of celebrity.
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