 book
shall last, I hope that they will form a part of it, and will be fairly read as
inseparable from my experiences and impressions of America.
                                                                CHARLES DICKENS.
May, 1868.
 

                                     Notes

1 Mrs. Nickleby, that is, Mrs. Dickens mère, asked her son if he supposed there
ever was a real Mrs. Nickleby. So Dickens told Forster.
 
2 The most credulous reader will scarcely believe that Mr. Pecksniff's reasoning
was once set upon as the Author's!!

