115
New illustrator chosen 115
Mr. Hablot K. Browne 115
C. D. leaves the gallery 116
_Strange Gentleman_ and _Village Coquettes_ 116

CHAPTER VI. 1837.

Pages 117-140.

WRITING THE PICKWICK PAPERS. AET. 25.

First letter from him 117
As he was thirty-five years ago 118
Mrs. Carlyle and Leigh Hunt 119
Birth of eldest son 119
From Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street 119
A long-remembered sorrow 120
I visit him 120
Hasty compacts with publishers 121
Self-sold into quasi-bondage 121
Agreements for editorship and writing 121
Mr. Macrone's scheme to reissue _Sketches_ 122
Attempts to prevent it 123
Exorbitant demand 123
Impatience of suspense 123
Purchase advised 124
_Oliver Twist_ 125
Characters real to himself 125
Sense of responsibility for his writings 126
Criticism that satisfied him 126
Help given with his proofs 126
Writing _Pickwick_, Nos. 14 and 15 127
Scenes in a debtors' prison 128
A recollection of Smollett 128
Reception of _Pickwick_ 129
A popular rage 129
Mr. Carlyle's "dreadful" story 130
Secrets of success 130
_Pickwick_ inferior to later books 131
Exception for Sam Weller and Mr. Pickwick 131
Personal habits of C. D. 132
Reliefs after writing 133
Natural discontents 134
The early agreements