"THE PICKWICK PAPERS"
Sir.-TIn the interesting article introducing the Pickwick radio adaptation it | was stated that "Dickens was 22 or 23 |... when Mr. Hall called on him with _the proposal that led to the writing of the Pickwick Papers." Actually, that meeting took place on the 10th February, 1836, three days after Dickens’s 24th birthday, and a couple of days before his wedding. It was in December, 1833, that Dickens bought his copy of the Monthly Magazine from Hall. It might be mentioned that, though before the appearance of Sam Weller, Dickens agreed to a reduction of payment from | 14 guineas a month to 10, a few months later Chapman and Halj increased it to | £25. One other small point: Hablot K. Brown should be "Browne" — spell it et with an "e" my lord.
A.H.
R.
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 15
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137"THE PICKWICK PAPERS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 15
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