letter from Hitty
Mary Krimmel (mary.krimmel@SDCS.ORG)
Sat, 6 Jul 1996 16:12:34 -0700
Secret Department
Museum of San Diego History
July 6, 1996
Dear Mr Dickens,
You will be surprised to hear from an old (a very old) acquaintance. But
perhaps you do not remember our brief meeting outside Brevoort House on the
east side of Fifth Avenue in New York.
I, however, have never forgotten your gallant kindness to me and to Isabella
Van Rensselaer. It quite overcame my deep humiliation in finding myself dropped
at the feet of the great man who wrote 'Nicholas Nickleby'.
Much has happened since then, and indeed since I wrote the memoir of my first
hundred years almost seventy years ago, the memoirs which Miss Cornelia Meigs
kindly took to the Macmillan Company so that the same children who loved your
books could know something about America of many years ago. I made an airplane
journey not long after finishing my memoirs, and have made many more since that
first terrifying one. Indeed, as you see, I have even learned how to write this
letter to you, although how such a thing is possible is well beyond my
understanding.
Your obedient servant,
Hitty
care of Mary Krimmel
mary.krimmel@sdcs.org