Chapter XVIII: 1841

Pages 284-291.

EVE OF THE VISIT TO AMERICA. AET. 29.

Greetings from America 284
Reply to Washington Irving 284
Difficulties in the way 285
Resolve to go 286
Wish to revisit scenes of boyhood 286
Proposed book of travel 286
Arrangements for the journey 287
Impatience of suspense 287
Resolve to leave the children 288
Mrs. Dickens reconciled 288
A grave illness 288
Domestic griefs 289
The old sorrow 289
At Windsor 290
Son Walter's christening 290
At Liverpool with the travelers 291