Fourteen years after he visited Baltimore Charles Dickens remembered “that flowery Julep”.
A deep and lasting friendship grew up between Washington Irving and Charles Dickens, during the years that the American writer lived in England.
Naturally, then, Irving sought to show his friend the hospitality of America when Dickens visited here.
And among the wonders with which he chose to charm his visitor was a famous Maryland Rye by the name of Mount Vernon.
That was in 1842. And fourteen years later the memory of its excellence was so vivid that Dickens wrote:
“My dear Irving: If you knew how often I write to yon individually and personally in my books, you would be no more surprised in seeing this note than yon were in seeing me do my duty to that flowery Julep (in what I dreamily apprehend to have been a former state of existetice) at Baltimore.”
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In modem America, also, the memory of Mount Vernon’s goodness has lived through fourteen arid years. And now something better than reminiscence has come true. Mount Vernon, itself, distilled in Baltimore just as it was in the days of Charles Dickens, can again grace your table, and lend its rich and memorable quality to hospitality.
MOUNT VERNON
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1935, The American Medicinal Spirits Corporation, Baltimore, Md.