Mr. Dickens had left England an invalid ... One letter came from the South, asking an original epitaph for the tombstone of an infant. Another came from a Southern lady, soliciting an autograph ...

Williams did score a bull’s-eye with a minor yarn, Mr. Chops. If a showman as gifted as Emlyn Williams ever goes to work on the great comic figures in Dickens —Pecksniff, Micawber, Sairey Gamp ...

And John Dickens would become the inspiration for the lovably optimistic Mr Micawber in Charles’ novel ... After a private ceremony, his grave was left open for two days and thousands came ...