Article reprinted in Brought to Book, 2 vols (London, 1870). Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 78. The article is terminated, unusually, by a 500-word 'Note by the Conductor', i.e. Charles Dickens, commenting on the circumspection with which Spicer's tale of supernatural visitation must be viewed, and adding a personal example of unexplained déjà vu; see p. 620. This may have been prompted in part by the desirability of Dickens 'rounding off' the volume by making his editorial presence felt in a characteristically intimate fashion.
