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Excerpt from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
I have seen various accounts of the origin of these Pickwick Papers which have, at all events, possessed - for me - the charm of perfect novelty. As I may infer, from the occasional appearance of such histories, that my readers have an interest in the matter, I will relate how they came into existence.
I was a young man of two or three and twenty, when messrs. Chapman and hall, attracted by some pieces I was at that time writing in the Morning Chronicle newspaper, or had just written in the Old Monthly Magazine (of which one series had lately been collected and published in two volumes, illustrated by mr. George cruikshank), waited upon me to propose a something that should be published in shilling numbers - then only known to me, or, I believe, to anybody else, by a dim recollection of certain interminable novels in that form, which used to be carried about the country by pedlers, and over some of which I remember to have shed innumerable tears before I had served my apprenticeship to Life.
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