...should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and...Club, and that happy portrait of its founder, by which lie is always recognised, and which may be said to have made him a reality. I connected Mr. Pickwick...

...wrote. In 1847 he wrote : My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick and wrote the firfet number ; from the proof sheets of which Mr. Seymour made his drawing of the club, and the happy portrait of its founder, by which he is always recognised, and which may be said to have...

...would be infinitely better for the plates to arise naturally out of the text. . . . My views being 58 deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and wrote the first number; from the proof-sheets of which Mr. Seymour made his drawing of the Club, and the happy portrait of its founder....

...views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and wrote the first number ; from the proofsheets of which, MR. SEYMOUR made his drawing of the Club,...happy portrait of its founder, by which he is always recognized, and which may be said to have made him a reality. I connected Mr. Pickwick with a club,...

...should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr Pickwick, and wrote the first number. " Locomotion," as Dickens said, was really his strong point, and so The Pickwick Papers, suggested...

...should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and...founder by which he is always recognised and which may 98 be said to have made him a reality. I connected Mr. Pickwick with a club because of the original...

...should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and...happy portrait of its founder by which he is always recognized, and which may be said to have made him a reality. I connected Mr. Pickwick with a club...

...should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and...which Mr. Seymour made his drawing of the club and his happy portrait of its founder. I connected Mr. Pickwick \vith a club, because of the original suggestion...

...project's beginnings undergoes some revision in the Prefaces. In 1847, Seymour is described as having "made his drawing of the Club, and that happy portrait of its founder . . . which may be said to have made him a reality" (PP, p. 44). By 1867, a subtle displacement is...

...serial novel, Dickens wrote in Pickwick, Samuel Pinch, Ruth his Preface to the Cheap Edition (1847) that 'I thought of Mr Pickwick, and wrote the first number; from the proof sheets of which, Mr Seymour [the illustrator of that number] made his drawing of the Club, and that happy portrait of its founder,...