Title as in the Household Words Office Book (see Lohrli, p. 161); not in original text (introduced into transcript as interpolation). The piece is introduced by a 4-line paragraph identifying the narrator and linking him with the framework.
The interpolated story (in the form of a narrative poem) told in 'The Old Sailor's Story' is by Adelaide Anne Procter. The Introduction to 'The Old Sailor's Story' [the opening paragraph, p, 597,] however, is part of the framework of
The Wreck of the 'Golden Mary' - part, that is, of the linking and bridging sections that Dickens usually wrote himself. See notes to
The Seven Poor Travellers,
The Wreck of the 'Golden Mary,' [1856 Christmas] and
'The Beguilement in the Boats.'
Harry Stone; © Bloomington and Indiana University Press, 1968. DJO gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce this material.
