The Mudfog Papers

The Mudfog Papers are an anthology of stories written by Charles Dickens and published from 1837 to 1838 in the monthly literary journal Bentley's Miscellany, which he was then editing.

The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of a fictional society, The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

[1][2] The latter, founded in York in 1831, was one of numerous Victorian learned societies dedicated to the advancement of science.

The fictional town of Mudfog was based on Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent part of his youth.

He also suggests that "at some future period, we may venture to open the chronicles of Mudfog".