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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. PAST METROPOLITAN DAILY PAPERS. The Morning Chronicle.--Part Second. Mr. Charles Dickens's Connexion with the Morning Chronicle-- Incidents in Mr. Dickens's Early Literary Career--Close of Mr. Black's Editorship--Changes in the Proprietorship of the Morning Chronicle -- Its becoming a Puseyite and Peelite Paper--Mr. Sergeant Glover's Proprietorship--Mr. Stiffs Proprietorship--End of the Morning Chronicle. But of all the distinguished literary men, whether known as authors of books or as writers for the newspaper press, that ever before, or since 1835-6, were connected with the Morning Chronicle, the name of Charles Dickens stands immeasurably the highest. As a good deal of misconception still exists in relation to the circumstances under which he formed, and for some years continued that connexion; and as everything appertaining to his earlier career possesses a deep and universal interest, I am sure I will be pardoned if, in order to state the facts of the case more clearly than they have hitherto been, I make a few slight digressions. On the day after Mr. Dickens's death, I wrote an article on his literary career, but chiefly with respect to its earlier history, in one of the daily journals. What I have said has been transferred to various newspapers and literary periodicals, and in no one instance has the accuracy of a single statement I then made, been doubted, much less denied. It is everywhere believed that the earliest productions from his pen made their appearance in the columns of the Morning Chronicle; and that Mr. John Black, then editor of that journal, was the first to discover and duly appreciate the genius of Mr. Dickens. The fact was not so. It is true that he wrote " Sketches" afterwards in the Morning...
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