From a photo by Walter Dexter
THE BULL HOTEL, ROCHESTER
“Good house—nice beds....” Vide “Pickwick”
The success of his little paper in the Monthly Magazine induced him to try his hand at others, for gratuitous publication in the same journal. They bore no signature until the sixth sketch appeared, when he adopted the curious pseudonym of “Boz”: this had for some time previously been to him
From a photo by Mason & Co.
A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DICKENS AT ABOUT THE AGE OF 50