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From The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Told by Herself in Letters to Friends, Volume II, edited by A. G. K. L'Estrange

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"So you have never heard of the 'Pickwick Papers!' Well! They publish a number once a month, and print 25,000.  The bookseller has made about ten thousand pouns by the speculation.  It is fun -- London life -- but without any thing unpleasant... It seems like not having heard of Hogarth, whom he resembles greatly, except that he takes a far more cheerful view, a Shakespearian view, of humanity."

From a letter to Miss Jephson, dated Three-mile Cross, June 30, 1837.