In publishing the more private letters, we do so with the view of showing him in his homely, domestic life—of showing how in the midst of his own constant and arduous work, no household matter was considered too trivial to claim his care and attention. He would take as much pains about the hanging of a picture, the choosing of furniture, the superintending any little improvement in the house, as he would about the more serious business of his life; thus carrying out to the very letter his favourite motto of "What is worth doing at all is worth doing well."
Mamie Dickens.
Georgina Hogarth.
London: October, 1879.
ERRATA.
VOL. I.
| Page | 111, | line 6. For "because if I hear of you," read "because I hear of you." |
| " | 114, | line 24. For "any old end," read "or any old end." |
| " | 137. | First paragraph, second sentence, should read, "All the ancient part of Rome is wonderful and impressive in the extreme, far beyond the possibility of exaggeration. As to the," etc. |
| " | 456, | line 11. For "Mr." read "Mrs." |