Pickwick.
» . i An interesting volume of reminiscences by the lata Mr Walter White, Assistant-Secretary of the Boyal Society, has just been published. Id an entry of Jun« 16tb, 1848, White repeats some current talk about "Pickwick." At first " Chapman and Hall were not over pleased with their bargain/ If so, the change soon came. " Tilt sold 1200 of No. 6, and the publishers lent to Dickens a cheque for £80 over and abot« the £8 per sheet
agreed on; be acknowledged it. For No. 7 they sent him an extra chepue for £60, which he did not acknowledge. For No. 8 a cheque for £100, which he returned. They altered the one into four and then the author kept it. Altogether be received for Pickwick £12000 more was stipulated for." Some years later* at a party at the Ghapmans, Mr F. Chapman related how his father had once said to Dickens " take a pinch of snuff," handing him a snuff-box with £1400 inside it. This reminds one of the pill-box, with directions, which Thackeray sent a contributor somewhat in need of a dose-
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Manawatu Herald, 24 February 1898, Page 3
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183Pickwick. Manawatu Herald, 24 February 1898, Page 3
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