THE Post is grateful to those who pointed out the error in last week’s The Charles Dickens’ Cornwall connection story.

It was suggested in a quote that during time spent in the Tintagel area, Charles Dickens attended St Nectan’s Glen waterfall with William Hogarth, who was said to have painted the famous The Nymph of the Waterfall.

It was in fact Daniel Maclise who painted this piece, and supposedly based the painting on Dickens’ 15-year-old sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth.

Dickens said in 1842: “I want to see the very dreariest and desolate portion of the sea-coast of Corwall; and start next Thursday, with a couple of friends, for St Michael’s Mount.”

Barry West, a Cornish researcher who has played a big role in connecting Charles Dickens and North Cornwall, believes this quote from Dickens suggests how the author found himself in the Tintagel area.

It is thought that Daniel Maclise, a friend of Dickens’ and an artist, became inspired by the scenery of ‘St Nighton’s Waterfall’, now known as St Nectan’s, and painted The Nymph of the Waterfall upon his return to London.