After parting with him, when I had reached his gate, he called after me in a very loud voice, "If you see Mrs.Lucretia Mott, tell her that I have not forgotten the slave." His "American Notes" appeared the next week.

There were some things in that hasty and faulty volume for which I sent him a cordial note of thanks, and I speedily received the following characteristic reply, which I still prize as a precious relic of the man: I DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, REGENTS PARK, Oct.

26th, 1842.
MY DEAR SIR:--I am heartily obliged to you for your frank and manly letter.

I shall always remember it in connection with my American book; and never--believe me--save in the foremost rank of its pleasant and honorable associations.
Let me subscribe myself, as I really am Faithfully your Friend, CHARLES DICKENS.
Mr.Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.
I hold that Dickens was the most original genius in our fictitious literature since the days of Walter Scott.

As a social reformer his fame is quite as great as it is as a master of romance.