Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 182
for a newspaper and taught him-self shorthand. When he was twenty-two he secured apermanent newspaper position and began to write shortarticles that attracted some attention. His Sketchesby Boz were published in 1836, and the same yearhe began the Pickwick Papers. From that timeforth he had… … I N an evil hour for me, asI often bitterly thought,James Lamert, the rela-tive who had lived withus in Bayham Street,seeing how I was employedfrom day to day, and knowingwhat our domestic circum-stances then were, proposedthat I should go into theblacking-warehouse, to be asuseful as I could, at a…
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