Identifier: cu31924013471481 (find matches)
Title: Works
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ion and approvalof this Association. That the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club istherefore hereby constituted; and that Samuel Pickwick, Esq.,G.C.M.P.C, Tracy Tupman, Esq., M.P.C, Augustus Snodgrass,Esq., M.P.C., and Nathaniel Winkle, Esq., M.P.C, are herebynominated and appointed members of the same ; and that theybe requested to forward, from time to time, authenticated accountsof their journeys and investigations, of their observations ofcharacter and manners, and of the whole of their adventures,together with all tales and papers to which local scenery orassociations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club, stationed inLondon. That this Association cordially recognises the principle ofevery member of the Corresponding Society defraying his owntravelling expenses; and that it sees no objection whatever tothe members of the said society pursuing their inquiries for anylength of time they please, upon the same terms. That the members of the aforesaid Corresponding Society be, 2
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-Mi.Mc^km^ iz<a:!^x!4,s:^f€^ ,^^ c/i^Jr THE PICKWICKIANS and are, hereby informed, that their proposal to pay the postageof their letters, and the carriage of their parcels, has been de-liberated upon by this Association: that this Association considerssuch proposal worthy of the great minds from which it emanated,and that it hereby signifies its perfect acquiescence therein. A casual observer, adds the Secretary, to whose notes we areindebted for the following account—a casual observer might pos-sibly have remarked nothing extraordinary in the bald head, andcircular spectacles, which were intently turned towards his (theSecretarys) face, during the reading of the above resolutions: tothose who knew that the gigantic brain of Pickwick was workingbeneath that forehead, and that the beaming eyes of Pickwickwere twinkling behind those glasses, the sight was indeed aninteresting one. There sat the man who had traced to theirsource the mighty ponds of Hampstead, and agitated the sci

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