{7} This first Sketch was entitled, “_Mrs. Joseph Porter_, ‘_over the
Way_.’” The _Monthly Magazine_ in which this appeared was published by
Cochrane and M‘Crone, and must not be confounded with _The New Monthly
Magazine_, published by Colburn.
{8a} This was the first paper in which Dickens assumed the pseudonym of
“Boz.” The previous sketches appeared anonymously.
{8b} Of these Sketches two volumes were collected and published by
Macrone (with illustrations by George Cruikshank), in February, 1836, and
a third in the December following.
{10} The pamphlet was entitled _Sunday wider Three Heads_: _As it is_;
_as Sabbath Bills would make it_; _as it might be made_. By Timothy
Sparks. London, Chapman and Hall, 1836, pp. 49 (with illustrations by
Hablot K. Browne).
{11} “Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi,” edited by _Boz_. With illustrations
by George Cruikshank. In two volumes. London, R. Bentley. 1838.
{15} “Master Humphrey’s Clock,” Vol. I. p. 72.
{18a} “Master Humphrey’s Clock,” Vol. I., pp. 98, 99.
{18b} June 25, 1841.
{24} Kate Field.
{26} _Evenings of a Working Man_, by John Overs, with a Preface relative
to the Author, by Charles Dickens. London: Newby, 1844.
{27} _Bentley’s Miscellany_, edited by Mr. Dickens during the years
1837–38.
{28} Dr. Elliotson.
{29} We are told that Overs did not live long after the publication of
his little book: “the malady under which he was labouring, terminated
fatally the following October.”
{30} _Fraser’s Magazine_, July, 1844.
{31} These five volumes were all gracefully illustrated by John Leech,
Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Sir Edwin Landseer, Richard Doyle,
and others; and a set of the original issue is now much sought after, and
not easily met with.
{33} “Unto this Last.” Chap. I.
{34} The following instances are, by kind permission, selected from an
admirable article upon this subject, which appeared in the “Temple Bar”
Magazine for September, 1869.
{53} Sir David Wilkie died at sea, on board the _Oriental_, off
Gibraltar, on the 1st of June, 1841, whilst on his way back to England.
During the evening of the same day his body was committed to the
deep.—ED.
{55} The _Britannia_ was the vessel that conveyed Mr. Dickens across the
Atlantic, on his first visit to America.—ED.
{61} _Master Humphrey’s Clock_, under which title the two novels of
Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop originally appeared.—ED.
{63} “I shall always entertain a very pleasant and grateful recollection
of Hartford. It is a lovely place, and I had many friends there, whom I
can never remember with indifference. We left it with no little regret.”
_American Notes_ (Lond. 1842). Vol. I, p. 182.
{70} See the _Life and Letters of Washington Irving_ (Lond. 1863), p.
644, where Irving speaks of a letter he has received “from that glorious
fellow Dickens, in reply to the one I wrote, expressing my heartfelt
delight with his writings, and my yearnings toward himself.” See also
the letter itself, in the second division of this volume.—ED.
{88} _TENNYSON_, _Lady Clara Vere de Vere_, then newly published in
collection of 1842.—ED.
{95} “That this meeting, while conveying its cordial thanks to Charles
Dickens, Esq., for his presence this evening, and for his able and
courteous conduct as President, cannot separate without tendering the
warmest expression of its gratitude and admiration to one whose writings
have so loyally inculcated the lessons of benevolence and virtue, and so
richly contributed to the stores of public pleasure and instructions.”
{98} The Duke of Devonshire.
{105} _Charlotte Corday going to Execution_.
{113} The above is extracted from Mrs. Stowe’s “Sunny Memories of
Foreign Lands,”, a book in which her eaves-dropping propensities were
already developed in a sufficiently ugly form.—ED.
{150} Alas! the “many years” were to be barely six, when the speaker was
himself destined to write some memorial pages commemorative of his
illustrious friend (Cornhill Magazine, February, 1864.)—ED.
{153} Mr. Henry Dodd had proposed to give five acres of land in
Berkshire, but, in consequence of his desiring to attach certain
restrictions, after a long and unsatisfactory correspondence, the
Committee, on 13th January following, rejected the offer.
(_Communicated_.)
{161} Claude Melnotte in _The Lady of Lyons_, Act iii. sc. 2.
{177} Mr. B. Webster.
{220} _Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. Sc. 1.
{239} Robert Browning: _Bells and Pomegranates_.
{242} R. H.
{250} _Carlyle’s French Revolution_. Book X., Chapter I.
{259} Henry Thomas Buckle.
{260} This and the Speeches which follow were accidentally omitted in
their right places.
{263} Hazlitt’s Round Table (Edinburgh, 1817, vol ii., p. 242), _On
Actors and Acting_.
{274} _Vide suprà_, _p._ 268.
{292} An allusion to a well-known Sonnet of Wordsworth, beginning—“The
world is too much with us—late and soon,” &c.—ED.
{303} Alluding to the forthcoming serial story of _Edwin Drood_.
{309} The Honourable John Lothrop Motley.
{311} February 26th, 1851. Mr. Macready’s Farewell Benefit at Drury
Lane Theatre, on which occasion he played the part of Macbeth.—ED.
{312} MACBETH, Act I., sc. 7.
{316} The Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Longley).
{330} These passages are given by kind permission of Mr. Blanchard
Jerrold, who has obligingly allowed us to make free use of this portion
of the Memoir of his father. We refer the reader who is desirous of
seeing more, to that ably-written biography.—ED.
{334} _The Village Coquettes_: _a Comic Opera in Two Acts_. By CHARLES
DICKENS. The music by John Hullah. London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
{336} Produced for the first time at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on
Saturday, December 10, 1842. We would fain have given this fine prologue
entire, had we felt authorized in doing so.
{337} In “A New Spirit of the Age.” (Lond., 1844), Vol. I., pp. 65–68.
{341} _The Keepsake for_ 1844. _Edited by the Countess of Blessington_,
pp. 73, 74.
{349} The reader who desires to further renew his recollections of Mr.
Dickens’s Readings is referred to Miss Kate Field’s admirable “Pen
Photographs,” published in Boston, in 1868. The little volume is a
valuable estimate of the readings recently given in America.
{353a} Extracted (by kind permission) from a criticism by Mr. Edmund
Yates.
{353b} Written in 1868.