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NOTES
Chapter 1
Our people don’t think: Letters 3:233 (3 May 1842).
nature’s greatest altar: American Notes, 202.
It would be hard: Letters 3:210-11 (26 April 1842).
the presence and influence: Letters 3:35 (29 Jan. 1842).
When I felt how near: American Notes, 200.
What would I give: Letters 3:211 (26 April 1842).
peace of mind: Ibid.
a very grim place: Letters 12:69 (8 March 1868).
We have had two brilliant sunny days: Letters 12:73 (16 March 1868).
All away to the horizon: Letters 12:75 (16 March 1868).
What I once said: Ibid.
another letter: Letters 12:76 (16 March 1868).
the more truly great the man: “Trading in Death,” Journalism 3:98.
a crazy, tumble-down old house: Forster, Life 1:21.
a patient and continuous energy: David Copperfield, ch. 42.
There never existed: Mamie Dickens, My Father As I Recall Him, 7 & 11-13.
so long as the room: Storey, Dickens and Daughter, 77.
the fondness of a savage: Arthur Locker, in Kitton, Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil, 173.
liked a tidy head: Ibid.
took out a pocket-comb: Thompson, “Extracts from the Diary,” 703. Similarly, a houseguest at Gad’s Hill was impressed by “the particular care which his host gave to his hair, and how, while the guest would be taking an early stroll out of doors, Dickens would open his window, cheerily salute his friend, and carry on a conversation from above, all the while brushing his still flowing locks with almost savage energy, vigorously wielding a pair of brushes as if he would brush his hair off, working from the back of the head and bringing the lengthy side-locks in curls over the ears” (Kitton, Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil, 175).
His punctuality: Storey, Dickens and Daughter, 77.
The condition of the common people: Letters 4:266 (11 Feb. 1845).
The country is delightful: Letters 4:561 (?13 or 14 June 1846).
admirably educated: Letters 4:574 (?28 June 1846).
taken at hazard: Letters 4:515 (?28 June 1846).
The Genius of Dullness: Letters 4:597 (5 Aug. 1846).
The absence of any accessible streets: Letters 4:622 (?20 Sep. 1846).
giddiness and headache: Letters 4:627-28 (3 Oct. 1846).
The sight of the rushing Rhone: Letters 4:627 (30 Sep. & 1 Oct. 1846).
The whole prospect: Pictures from Italy, 420-21.
beautifully clean: David Copperfield, ch. 3.
The Bastille!: Tale of Two Cities, ch. 21.
the great progress: Letters 6:468 (22 Aug. 1851).
be trained in the spirit: Letters 10:266 (4 July 1863).
horrible: Letters 3:482 (3 May 1843).
Dickens was a pure modernist: Ruskin, Letters to Norton 2:5 (19 June 1870).
chary of shewing my affections: Letters 7:543 (22 Feb. 1855).
intense dislike: Henry Dickens, Memories, 19-20.
I am breaking my heart: Letters 2:172 (?22 Dec. 1840).
I am slowly murdering: Letters 2:180 (?6 Jan. 1841).
It casts the most horrible shadow: Letters 2:181 (?8 Jan. 1841).
I am, for the time being: Letters 2:184 (14 Jan. 1841).
I resolved to try: Letters 2:188 (?17 Jan. 1841).
who wrote so tenderly: Linton, My Literary Life, 64.
You know my man Cooper?: Letters 7:319 (20 April 1854).
Mr. Henry Bradbury: Letters 9:302 (4 Sep. 1860).
to exterminate the Race: Letters 8:473 (23 Oct. 1857).
spoke with great vehemence: Meckier, “Some Household Words,” 13.
brought about by attendant revolutions: Patten, Dickens and His Publishers 343.
one of the greatest geniuses: Flower, “Charles Dickens and Edward Bulwer-Lytton,” 89.
found Mr. Dickens very practical: Cross, “Charles Dickens: A Memory,” 396.
Dickens behaved outrageously: Patten, Dickens and His Publishers, 86.
I do not regard: Letters 11:289 (27 Dec. 1866).
I made last week: Letters 8:647 (2 Sep. 1858).
there was perpetual sunshine: J. T. Fields, Yesterdays with Authors, 241.
That man is a brute: Panton, Leaves from a Life, 143.
sexual love: Orwell, “Charles Dickens,” Dickens, Dali & Others, 68.
weeps eighty-eight times: Spielmann, “Florence Dombey’s Tears,” 157.
legless angels: Orwell, “Charles Dickens,” Dickens, Dali & Others, 73.
The sweet scent: Perugini, “Edwin Drood and the Last Days,” 654.
Chapter 2
In his youth: Little Dorrit, ch. 1:13.
Ever since that memorable time: Ibid.
You open the way: Letters 7:544 (22 Feb. 1855).
shivered and broke: Little Dorrit, ch. 1:13.
information about Maria Beadnell: Ackroyd, Life, 1096.
dark-haired … slightly plump: Ibid., 130.
blond, petite: Kaplan, Dickens, 51.
Both Marias—brunette and blonde: In photographs of Maria in middle age she appears to have dark hair; but age or the developing process might have darkened it.
there used to be a tendency: Letters 7:544 (22 Feb. 1855).
the place where they grant: “Doctors’ Commons,” Journalism 1:89.
their address varied: Reckoning up the Dickens family’s residences during Charles’s youth, one researcher “counted seventeen addresses before Dickens left home when he was 22, and thought there were probably some I’d missed” (Richardson, “Charles Dickens and the Cleveland Street Workhouse,” 103).
vernacular tastes in music: “I have not the least knowledge of music,” Dickens admitted in 1854, “I only love it” (Letters 7:297).
Are you going out of town: Letters 1:7 (30 July 1832).
Will you excuse my postponing: Letters 1:13 (5 Jan. 1833).
Snatches of over 200 popular songs: Ruff, “How Musical was Charles Dickens?” 40.
I am exceedingly sorry: Letters 1:11 (20 Dec. 1832).
pocket Venus: Stonehouse, Green Leaves, 39.
“light butterfly” feelings: Letters 1:25 (16 May 1833).
seldom dined: “The Steam Excursion,” Journalism 1:369.
Life has no charms: Hanna, “Before Boz,” 306. Maria’s album is in the Dickens House Museum; Hanna’s “Before Boz” gives reliable transcriptions of Dickens’s contributions to the album.
He saw at a window: Hanna, “Before Boz,” 308.
“The Bill of Fare”: Hanna, “Before Boz,” 314-26. Anne Kolle’s album with Dickens’s autograph version of “The Bill of Fare” has disappeared; three copies (in other hands) survive, however. I quote from Hanna’s transcription of the copy in the Dickens House Museum.
After reporting his last debate: Annie Fields Diaries, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Mr. Dickin: Letters 7:534 (10 Feb. 1855).
many old kindnesses: Letters 5:626 (19 Oct. 1849).
The first of his surviving letters: Letters 7:777 (late 1831).
I once matched a little pair: Letters 7:538 (15 Feb. 1855).
the epidemic of illustrated annuals: Wilde, “Countess of Blessington,” 342.
This charming spot: Hanna, “Before Boz,” 312.
I should not have written it: Letters 1:8 (Summer 1832).
Dickens was on several occasions: Stonehouse, Green Leaves, 28.
Situated as we have been once: Letters 1:23 (14 May 1833).
recollecting what had passed: Letters 1:25 (16 May 1833).
How it all happened: Letters 7:543 (22 Feb. 1855).
Mr. Dickens senior had been summoned: London Gazette, 22 November 1831, 2447-48.
My existence was once: Letters 7:534 (10 Feb. 1855).
my cold is about as bad: Letters 1:12 (?1832).
With our friends the Beadnell’s: Letters 1:14 (?Jan. 1833).
Your handwriting: Letters 6:659 (4 May 1852).
Do not misunderstand: Letters 7:777 (Late 1831).
I cannot unless: Letters 7:777 (Late 1831).
Surely, surely: Ibid.
When we were falling off: Letters 7:545 (22 Feb. 1855).
I gave a party: “Birthday Celebrations,” Journalism 4:232.
The first of these letters: Letters 1:16-17 (18 March 1833).
with a blue ribbon: Letters 7:539 (15 Feb. 1855).
expressive of the same sentiments: Letters 1:25 (16 May 1833).
I know what your feelings: Letters 1:25 (16 May 1833).
Although unfortunately: Letters 1:19 (?15 April 1833).
The family are busy: Letters 1:19 (?15 April 1833).
A father’s curse: Payne, Clari, 52.
Hence, hence!: Ibid., 53.
Most extensive: “Mrs Joseph Porter ‘Over the Way,’” Journalism 1:405.
on the night of the play: Letters 1:24 (16 May 1833).
by chance that days: Letters 1:22 (14 May 1833).
I cannot forbear: Letters 1:24 (16 May 1833).
a very conciliatory note: Letters 1:29 (19 May 1833).
I am most desirous: Letters 1:28 (19 May 1833).
I wrote to you: Letters 7:543 (22 Feb. 1855).
If you had ever felt: Letters 1:25-26 (16 May 1833).
you never had the stake: Letters 7:544 (22 Feb. 1855).
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