[John Forster], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Papers, No. XV, Examiner

‘…how can I thank you for your beautiful notice?’ Dickens wrote to Forster on 2 July 1836. ‘—Can I do so better than by saying that I feel your rich, deep appreciation of my intent and meaning more than the most glowing abstract praise that could possibly be lavished upon me?’ For Forster’s rewriting of this letter in Life, p. 89, see Pilgrim, i, 281n.