Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-05-21

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DICKENS;S STORY OFarIIE ORIGIN
aeGsst4st. OF 4sICKRICK. yao.1-,iu5
ssMr.' Dickens has lately been issuing
Whist is called n popular edition of his
works. in which he treats us to that lutte
account of the origin of Pick~ick. and
how eagerly we rushed behind the scenes
to see how they contrived the thunder: 10
= IT was young man ofthree and TWEEN.
y when the pre-. ent publishers, attracted
by some pieces I was an that sine wri
ting in the Morning Chronicle new paper
Tcf which one series had lately been COLI
lected and published in two volumes, IL
tnnastraated b5yf my esteemed friend, Mr..
Geo4Tge Cruikshank.1 waited upon me to
propose some thing that should be pub.
lished in shilling nunbers-then only
known TO me. or | believe to anybody
else. by dim recollection of certain in
terminable novels in that form which
used to be carried about the country by
peddlers, and over some Of which re.
member to have shed inumerable tears
before had served my apprenticeship to
Life.
: "When l opened my door in Furnival's
Inn to the managing. partner who presen-
ted The hrT, l recognized in the person
from whose hands | had bought. two or
three years previously, and whom had
never seen before or since. my first copy
of lie magazine in which my FIRST etfu 'ion
dropped stenlthily one evening at twi- |
light, with fear and trembling. into n
dark letter box. in dark office. up a
dark court in Fleet streel-appeared in
9ll the glory Of print; on which memora>
bic occa%iOn--huw we'll l recoiircu il! l |
walked down TO Westminster Hall and |
turned into it for half au hour because
my eyes were SO dimmed with Joy and
pride that they could not bear the street.
and were not fl TO be seen there. |
told my visitor Nhe coincidence. which we
both hAiled as a good omen, and SO fell
TO business. .t..-
'.The IDEA propounded to me Was that
theamon'hly something should be vehi-
Gle for certain plates 10 be executed by
Mr.. Seymour; and there. was notion
either ou- the part Of that admirable hu
mOlist or OF. my visitor Il forget which }
shat sNimrod Club, The members OF
which were togo out shooting. fishing,
tSo.S aud getting themselves into difficult
ties throughout their want OF dexterity
would, be the best means Of Introducing
these. lobiected, on consideration. that,
although born aud partly bred in the
country, was no great sportsman, ex
eept in regardto all kinds OF locomotion;
but that the idea was not novel. and had
been already much used; that it would
be infinitely better for plates to arise nat |
urally out Of the text; and that l should
like TO take my own way. free range OF
English scenes and people, and was afraid
Lashould ultimately do so i'll any case.
whatever course might prescribe TO my
self akstarting. My views being deferred,
i Thought of Mr.. Pickwick, and wrote
ths first, number. from the proof sheets
of which Mr.: Seymour made his drawing
of the club, and that happy portrait OF
dts founder by which may be said tO-hayc
made him a reality. connected Mr..
Pickwickwi.h clab because OF the ori.
ginal suggestion. and put in Mr.. Winkle
expressly for atue use of fnMr. Ssymour.-I
We started with number Of twenty four
pages instead Of thirty two, and four illus
Irations in lieu of couple. mir. Sey>
mour's suddenzandg lsmentedr death be-
foressthe ne second number was published,
brought, about "a quick decision upon,a
point already in agitation. The number
became one iofz thirty two pages. 81 with
two illustrations. and remained so to
the end. My friends told me it was a
lowUeheap foSm OF publication, By which
I should ruin all my raising hopes, and
how right my friends turned out to be,
eVerybo now knows.
".Bes,.. s nj ssignat,ire in the Morning
ChrdnidIss dppended Is 'moa,hly COW
of this book, aGdtretained long afterwards
WaSsthey 1isk4ane~ OF aePet ebild, a-young
broIhet5t whohh4 had dubbed Moses in
honor of the Vicar Of Maksfsld. which
being facetfou5ty Prono1nced through
the nose, became Bosses, and being shor-
tened became Boz. Boz was very
familiar household word to me long be-
fore 4 was an author. and sol came to
adopt it." '.,.''F ,-rao
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