NEWS BY MAIL
D TOKENS ’ S Mi ST ATv E. Charles Dickens unwittingly invited annoyance when, in the preface of the first printing of Nicholas Nickleby, he stated that the Brothers Cheeryble were taken from real life; that they still exercised their unbounded benevolence in the town where they lived. Commenting ou the results of this statement, Air. Dickens said :—•
“If 1 were bo attempt to sum up the hundreds upon hundreds of letters from all sorts of people, in all ■sorts of latitudes and climates, to which this unlucky paragraph has since, given rise, I should get into an arithmetical difficulty from Which 1 could not extricate myself. Suffice it to say that 1 believe the application's for loans, gifts, and offices of profit that I ha ve been requested'to forward to the originals of the Brothers Cbeeryble (with whom I never exchanged any communication in my life) would have exhausted the com ■biried patronage of all the lord chan cellors since the accession of the House of Brunswick and would have broken the rest of the Bank of Eng land.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12538, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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