Will you give me some notion of the sort of design you wish for the frontispiece to second vol. of Clock?[K] Cattermole being put hors de combat—Chapman with a careworn face (if you can picture that) brings me the block at the eleventh hour, and requires it finished by Wednesday. Now as I have two others to complete in the meantime—something nice and light would be best adapted to my palette, and prevent an excess of perspiration in the relays of wood-cutters. You shall have the others to criticise on Tuesday.
Yours very truly,
Hablot K. Browne.
Charles Dickens, Esq.
How are Mrs. Dickens and the "Infant?"
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Pronounced Hab-lo, after a Monsieur Hablot, a captain in the French army, and a friend of the family.
[B] It was Buss who illustrated Mrs. Trollope's Serial Story, The Widow Married, which was published in The New Monthly Magazine, 1840.
[C] See Dombey and Son, Vol. I, p. 113—"Doctor Blimber's Young Gentlemen."
[D] Leigh Hunt.
[E] Mr. R. Young, who also undertook the precarious task of "biting in" his plates.