Excerpt from The Charles Dickens Originals I AM glad of this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks to all those who have so kindly and cour teously assisted me in the making of this book to my friend, Mr. Nat Simmonds, to Sir Melville Macnaghten, c.b., The Assistant Commissioner of Police, to the Rev. Hume Elliot, The Biblio phile Society of Boston, Mr. Arthur Humphreys, Switzerland, to Messrs. Atwood Sons, and especially to the members of the Dick ens family, Henry Fielding Dickens, Esq., k.c., Mrs. Perugini, and Miss Georgina Hogarth. I am also deeply indebted to Mr. B. W. Matz for the care and pains he has taken in revising the proofs of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.