...e, Wilson said of him How could that puppy have written such books. Masson says Dickens' imagination was so active his narratives had very little value . . . . The Massons knew Alexander Smith and Sydney Dobell the two young poets, both of whom have died and both interested me . . . . I praised Dobell's ballad of Ravelston so much that Mrs. M. ordered a carriage and drove me there in the dark leaving at 9 ...