The letter was probably written to Charles H. Sweetser, New York: “I thank you for the article "The [Floral?] Tribute to Charles Dickens" which I shall send him by the next Steamer and I know how much he will appreciate it. I gave you a little notice of your 'Mail' and wish you every success…” After a six-month reading tour of the United States, Charles Dickens’ final American appearance was at a New York journalists’ banquet in his honor at Delmonico's in April 1868. The article mentioned in this letter was probably an account of the flower-bedecked event by Charles H. Sweetser, 27 year-old publisher of the newly-established New York Evening Mail. A few months later, Sweetser’s wife gave birth to a daughter, named Kate Dickinson after her poet cousin Emily, who was destined to one day write popular children’s books. In 1919, Kate Sweetser would find that account in an old trunk and rewrite it in book form as Dining with Dickens at Delmonico's. Not present at the banquet was George W. Childs, wealthy and influential Philadelphia newspaper and book publisher, whose good friends included President Grant, Edison, Carnegie, Walt Whitman - and Charles Dickens, whom Childs visited at his home in England later that year. Childs would later own the original manuscript of Our Mutual Friend, the only complete Dickens book manuscript in America.