342 | https://dickenssearch.com/items/show/342 | Banquet at the Mansion House 1853 | | Speech at the Banquet at the Mansion House (2 May 1853). | Dickens, Charles | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1853-05-02">1853-05-02</a> | | | | | | | 1853-05-02_Speech_Banquet-at-the-Mansion-House | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dickens, Charles. 'Speech at the Banquet at the Mansion House' (2 May 1853). <em>Dickens Search</em><span>. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. </span><a href="https://dickenssearch.com/speeches/1853-05-02_Speech_Banquet-at-the-Mansion-House">https://dickenssearch.com/speeches/1853-05-02_Speech_Banquet-at-the-Mansion-House</a><span>.</span> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=97&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Mansion+House">Mansion House</a> | | | | | <p><span data-contrast="none">Referring to Mrs. Beecher Stowe, he said that in returning thanks he could not forget he was in the presence of a stranger who was the author of a noble book with a noble purpose. But he had no right to call her a stranger, for she would find a welcome in every English home.</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">He begged to say that he was delighted to hear from Vice-Chancellor Wood that the Court of Chancery would not in the future be what it had been in the past. He had reason to hope that a suit which had been going on for some years past, and in which he was interested, might, by the learned judge's intervention, be brought to a satisfactory termination.</span></p> | | | | | | | | 18530502 | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=4&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=London">London</a> | | | | | | | | |