Note 42 — DANIEL MACLISE, R.A.

Replying to Mr. W. J. O'Driscoll's application for the loan of any of the artist's correspondence, with a view to publishing them in his Memoir of Maclise, Dickens stated that a few years previously he destroyed an immense correspondence, expressly because he considered it had been held with him and not with the public. Thus we have been deprived of valuable records which would have thrown additional light upon the friendly intercourse subsisting between the novelist and many of his distinguished contemporaries.