S A WELCOME diversion, Ulysses and Julia looked forward to listening to renowned British author Charles Dickens present readings at Washington’s Carroll Hall. Dickens had visited the capital in 1842, but that first trip had been largely a sightseeing tour. Since that time he had become the first author who took his books on the road in lucrative moneymaking tours. In Dickens’s second visit to America, he started in Boston and slowly worked his way down to Washington. The Grants joined the nation
