His admission to the Garrick, which had been at first "laid over," affords an example of London club fastidiousness.

The gentleman who proposed him used his pseudonym, Artemus Ward, instead of his own name, Charles F.Browne.I had the pleasure of introducing him to Mr.Alexander Macmillan, the famous book publisher of Oxford and Cambridge, a leading member of the Garrick.

We dined together at the Garrick clubhouse, when the matter was brought up and explained.

The result was that Charles F.Browne was elected at the next meeting, where Artemus Ward, had been made to stand aside.
Before Christmas, Artemus received invitations from distinguished people, nobility and gentry as well as men of letters, to spend the week-end with them.

But he declined them all.