n your Life of Dickens.
It was not however our first acquaintance with
the 'distinguished writer,' as he came with his
family to stay at a Pension on the border of
the Lake of Geneva where my father and his
family were then living, and notwithstanding
the gallant captain's 'habit' the families
subsequently became very intimate."

270. Lord Vernon is more correctly described as
the fifth Baron, who succeeded to the title in
1835 and died in 1866 in his 64th year.

283. The distance of Mont Blanc from the
Neuchatel road is now properly given as sixty
not six miles.

341, second line from bottom. Not
"subsequent" but "modified" is the proper word.

398. In mentioning the painters who took an
interest in the Guild scheme I omitted the
distinguished name of Mr. E. M. Ward, R.A., by
whom an admirable design, taken from Defoe's
life, was drawn for the card of membership.

455, 456. In supposing that the Child's Dream
of a Star was not among Dickens's Reprinted
Pieces, I fell into an error, which is here
corrected.

468. I did not mean to imply that Lady Graham
was herself a Sheridan. She was only connected
with the family she so well "represented" by
being the sister of the lady whom Tom Sheridan
married.

* * * * *

The incident at Mr. Hone's funeral quoted at pp. 31-33 from a letter to
Mr. Felton written by Dickens shortly after the occurrence (2nd of
March, 1843), and published, a year before my volume, in Mr. Field's
_Yesterdays with Authors_ (pp. 146-8), has elicited from the
"Independent clergyman" referred to a counter statement of the alleged
facts, of which I here present an abridgement, omitting nothing that is
in any way material. "Though it is thirty years since . . . several who
were present survive to this day, and have a distinct recollection of
all that occurred. One of these is the writer of this article--another,
the Rev. Joshua Harrison. . . . The Independent clergyman never wore bands,
and had no Bible under his arm. . . . An account of Mr