Summary Chapter 1
The narrator, presumably Boz, describes the minutes (documentation) of a meeting held by the Pickwick Club on May 12, 1827. The Pickwick Club is a club dedicated "to the advancement of knowledge, and the diffusion of learning." Its members include Samuel Pickwick, Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass, and Nathaniel Winkle who are to provide periodic reports (to the Club) of their travels which are financed out of their own pockets, meaning that they are gentlemen of leisure whose independent means allow them to indulge in such pastimes. Samuel Pickwick, the founder of the club, is bald, spectacled, and charismatic. Tupman has boyish charms, but with the advancing years has gotten fat. Snodgrass is a poet, and Winkle is a sportsman. The minutes relate Mr. Pickwick's determination to revitalize
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