{"character_count": 2013, "word_count": 359, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9661999940872192], "ccnet_perplexity": [944.2999877929688], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
"Boz," IN AmERIcA.-In speaking of the Knickerbocker, we intended to have added that we were glad to learn that a Bez'' was going to lend his valuable aid to it's attractive pages. Thenelli- gence of Mr. Dickens intended visit this country was communicated in recent letter to Mir. l.. Gay lord Clark, the editor, from which permitted to make the following extract In several previous letters to Mir. Clark, Mir. Dickens expressed the same warm regard for America and Americans that he maniests below. The reference tn the opening is the death of the editors only and twin brother, the late gifted and lamented Willis Gaylord Clark Esq,

 " I condole with you, from my heart on the loss you have sustained, and feel proud of your permitting to synpathise with your aflicton. It is a great satisfaction to me to have been addressed under similar circumstances by many of your countrymen, since the |" Curiosity Shop" came io a close. Some simple aud honest hearts in the remote wilds of America have written letters the loss of their children; so numbering my little book, or rather heroine, with their household gods, md so pouring their trials and ofcomfor in them before me, as friend, that have been n- expressbly mored-and am, whenever l think of them do assure you." *-.* " You have already all the comfort that l could lav before you--a, hope, that the affecuonate spirit of your brother, now in happiness, can shed into your soul The peaceful memory of the dead be with you"

 " am going to bring you article for good old Diedrick; for on the fourth of next January, if it pleases God, am coming, with my wife, on three four months visit to America. The British and North American steam packet will bring me, hope, Boston, and enable me, in the third week of the New Year, to set my foot on the soil have trodden in my day dreams many times, and whose sons (and daughters) yearn to be among. -t-.i

 " hope you surprsed-and hope not un- pleasantly. .-.4l a f-

 ss Ever faithfully yours,

 '~ CHAS. DICKENS"