Note 25 — V WITH DICKENS IN AMERICA[22]
Reading edition
Even after Dickens’s return to England, his sayings found their way into Mrs. Fields’s journal; as, for example:—
“July 4, 1868.—J. made me laugh this morning (it was far too hot to laugh) by telling me that Dickens said of Gray, the poet, ‘No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm!’”