Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-07


DIcEENs's STouT OF TIE oMGIS 81 PiCKwICK
Mr. Dickens has lattcrly Uecn issuing viiatis IS
called popular edition OF his works, IN which
he treats as to dis little account Of tie origin
Of Pickwick:
II was a young man of three and twenty
when the present publishers, attracted by some
pieces was at that time writing Ia the Nora
iag Chronicle newspapers, (of which one series
had lately been collected AID published Ia two
volumes. illustrated by my esteemed friend, sIr.
George Cruisshank, waited upon ne To pfupnSe
u something that Should be published in sbil-
ling numbers-;heh only known TO inc, or be-
licve TO anybody else, 10y a dim recollection Of
certain interIuiuabie uovcS In that form " Inch
used To be carried about the country by ped
dlaTs, and over some of which remember to
have shed inuummeTable tears before had svT-
we'd my apprenticeship 20 Life.
"Hhrn OpeHei my door in Furnivars Inn
10 the managing partner vino represented the
tirm, l recognised N hiUI the person from hose
hauds had bought, two OF three Years pre-
yiousiy, and whom had never seen before or
since, NY first COPY of the magazine ia which
my first effusion-dTopped steaitniiy one even
ing at twilight, with fear ard trembling. into
dark letter box, ia dark Office, up a dark
court in Fleet stTeet-aPPsarvd In all tine glory
| Of print; on which memorable ceession--h9W
well rtcOllect i'll wa!ked down 20 Wcstnin-
istcr Hall and turned into IL for half an hour,
| OcNlusG ny eyes were llusllGu VIII 10y anu
pride that they cond not bear the street, and
were not fit To be seen there. l told my visitor
of the coincidence, which both hailed as i
good omen, and 80 fell To business.
The idea Propounded 10 me was that the
monthly something should be "A vehicle for
tair plates 10 be executed by Ir. Seymour; aud
there 4 notion, either Oh the part Of that
admirable humorous artist or OF my visitor, q
/ forget which, that 'Niuirod Club the mem
bcTs 0fwlich were To 20 out shooting, fishing,
and forth, and getting themselves Ii.io d:ili-
cUities through their want uf dexteriiy, would
be ihc best means oC Introducing these. / Oh
ljuCted. on consideration, that, although born
and partly bred ia the county, no great
SPORTSMAN except ia regard oi nil kinds Of loco-
motion; that the idea was not novel, and bad
been already much used; that il would be inin-
iteiy better for the plates 10 arise naturally out
Of the text; aud that should like 60 take NY
| own way, with free range Of English scenes
and people, aud was afraid should ultimately
do :" iti any case, whatever course might pre-
scribe TO myself at starting. Ny viUws being
deferred TO, thought Of Mr. Pickriek, and
wrote the first number, frum the proof-sheets
of which Mr.. Seymour made his drawing of the
CiGh, and that haiFy portrait Oi its founder by
which hei> always recognised, aud which may
be said 10 have made him reality 1 eounec-
ted MIR. IickTick with CLUB because of the
original SucEction, ard put in Mr. Niukle
expressly Tor the use of SIR. Seymour. We
started with number Of twenty four pages in
stead Of tlIirty-;wo, and four Illustrations IN
lieu Of a coGPle- Mr. Seymour udden aud Ia.
mented death before the second number vas
Published, brought about a quick decision upon
point already 10 agitation; the number became
one Of thiity-two pages, with two Illustrations,
and remained to the end. Ny fIirads told
me il WIS 4 low, cheap form OF publication, by
which I should ruin all my :isins hopes, and
how right my iiends turned out to DC every
body now knows.
- Boz NY Signature in the .ifornisg CEron-
ieie, appended To the monthly cover ui his
book, aud rgtained long afterTari, was the
nickname Of 4 pet child, younger brother
~ hom I had dubbed Moses, in honor of the
Vicar Of Wakefield, which, beir. lacetiously
pronounced through the nose became Bosses,
and being stIor;eiie'i, became Boz Boz was
very familiar household word 10 ne long
beioTe Was IA author ard sol came TO adopt
it"