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351https://dickenssearch.com/items/show/351Introduction of A. H. Layard&#039;s Lecture for the Chatham Mechanics&#039; InstituteIntroduction of A. H. Layard&#039;s Lecture for the Chatham Mechanics&#039; Institute (17 April 1860).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=1860-04-17">1860-04-17</a>1860-04-17_Speech_Introduction-of-AH-Layard-Lecture-for-the-Chatham-Mechanics-InstituteDickens, Charles. 'Introduction of A. H. Layard's Lecture for the Chatham Mechanics' Institute' (17 April 1860). <em>Dickens Search</em><span>. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date].&nbsp;</span><a href="https://dickenssearch.com/speeches/1860-04-17_Speech_Introduction-of-AH-Layard-Lecture-for-the-Chatham-Mechanics-Institute">https://dickenssearch.com/speeches/1860-04-17_Speech_Introduction-of-AH-Layard-Lecture-for-the-Chatham-Mechanics-Institute</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=Chatham+Mechanics%27+Institute">Chatham Mechanics&#039; Institute</a><p><span data-contrast="none">But for his position that evening, he said, it would be impertinent for him to interpose between them and the lecturer, for wherever an enterprising and bold spirit was held in esteem, there the name of Mr. Layard needed no introduction. But, very much as the Sovereign cannot enter the City of London without a flourish of trumpets, so it appeared that a most remarkable traveller could not proceed to his lecture without a little blast from the trumpet of the appointed officer. In obedience to this custom, and with a lively sense of its absurdity, would they allow him to introduce his distinguished friend, the lecturer of that evening?</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">If those placards of ‘neutral tint’, he said, to which Mr. Otway had alluded, could have sympathized with him, they would have turned to burning red for the prominence given to his name in connexion with an event in which he had so small a part. The institution was always cordially welcome to his small services.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}">&nbsp;</span></p>18600417<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=4&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chatham">Chatham</a>
352https://dickenssearch.com/items/show/352At a Reading in Chatham 1860Speech at a Reading in Chatham (18 December 1860).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=1860-12-18">1860-12-18</a>1860-12-18_Speech_At-a-Reading-in-ChathamDickens, Charles. 'Speech at a Reading in Chatham' (18 December 1860). <em>Dickens Search</em><span>. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date].&nbsp;</span><a href="https://dickenssearch.com/speeches/1860-12-18_Speech_At-a-Reading-in-Chatham">https://dickenssearch.com/speeches/1860-12-18_Speech_At-a-Reading-in-Chatham</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=Chatham+Mechanics%27+Institute">Chatham Mechanics&#039; Institute</a><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun Highlight SCXW216223990 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW216223990 BCX0">He hoped, he said, that a time would come when a few mechanics would be found in a Mechanics</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW216223990 BCX0">’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW216223990 BCX0"> Institute. He was happy to aid the institution. He wished them all the good wishes of the coming season: he might be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW216223990 BCX0">rather premature</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW216223990 BCX0"> as to the time of uttering these, but they were surely not out of season, for good wishes were never out of season.</span></span>18601218<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=4&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chatham">Chatham</a>