As it was, he concluded that I was not a sneak, and treated me like a gentleman." Artemus received many tempting offers from book publishers in London.
Several of the Annuals for 1866-67 contain sketches, some of them anonymous, written by him, for all of which he was well paid.

He wrote for Fun--the editor of which, Mr.Tom Hood, son of the great humorist, was an intimate friend--as well as for Punch; his contributions to the former being printed without his signature.

If he had been permitted to remain until the close of his season, he would have earned enough, with what he had already, to attain the independence which was his aim and hope.

His best friends in London were Charles Reade, Tom Hood, Tom Robertson, the dramatist, Charles Mathews, the comedian, Tom Taylor and Arthur Sketchley.

He did not meet Mr.Dickens, though Mr.Andrew Haliday, Dickens' familiar, was also his intimate.