It has come to our attention that certain unsavory elements,
as deficient in judgment as in personal hygiene, have dared cast aspersions
upon the otherwise universally acknowledged authenticity of the “Lost Fragment of ‘Our Mutual Friend’”,
which it was our good fortune to have had the privilege of
revealing to an expectant world. Certain so-called “graphological
experts” -- well, we shall not weary you with the details.
In trenchant refutation of all such criticasters, herewith
attested samples of (on the left) an undoubted Dickensian manuscript; and, on the right, that of the fragment
in question, which came into our possession (d’une manière un tant soit
peut rocambolesque) in one of the back-streets of Geneva:
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| No sane man could doubt that these are from the same hand |
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