The Archive · 1907

A Pickwick Exhibition

Charles Dickens' works. fon the wane a small exhibition which wax opened under the auspices at Tam perring answer. The author of the Pickwick Papers" has now been dead for thirty-seven years and yet when it was proposed to of objects interest-one of his many works, the ow ship committee had offers of quite double the number of things that Jit was in any. way pos to show in the Gallery they had selected for thy purpose, One can imagine how gra fied they were at the great interest shown in their project.

Tt is a most ion of objects cots one's eye ax one goes into the New Duley Gallery. First of all the three fold screen on ed the rules and fares, ete.' of the coaches belonging to Moses Pick-coach i Bath, and the—gentleman—who probably provided the novelist with the name of the her of his most immortal work. There are numerous likenesses of Dick sketches of Mr. P and the two Wellers. Downstairs there-are samples of nearly every edit the book hus gone through from very earliest—in monthly parts to one which L think was only published last year. Some of the mementos wre charm-1g, notably an old "Toby " ju, the perty of Bir. Perey Fitzgerald, show: pression on his face. Th of Dickens land are another source of plleasnre; in fact there is not the whole exhibi 1 one wishes pass by: the only matter for regret is that a larger gallery was where one chance of viewing the things which were so unluckily crowded out,

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