| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1857/09/07 | Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins depart London by train for Carlisle, travel another 14 miles to the village of Hesketh Newmarket, and stay at the Queen's Head (private residence called Dickens House). | Caldbeck, Cumbria |
| 1857/09/08 | Despite bad weather, Dickens persuades a reluctant Collins to climb Carrock Fell, 8 mi (13 km) NE of Keswick. Carrying a broken compass, the lazy authors become lost in heavy mist on the descent where Wilkie badly sprains his ankle. | Lake District, |
| 1857/09/08 | Dickens and Collins travel to nearby Wigton, where Collins is attended to by a doctor. | Wigton, Cumbria |
| 1857/09/09 | Dickens and Collins make it to Allonby in time for lunch. They stay for two nights at The Ship, described by Dickens as 'a capital little homely inn looking out upon the sea ... a clean nice place in a rough wild country'. | Ship Hotel, Allonby |
| 1857/10/03 | A humorous account of Collins's and Dickens's walking tour of Cumberland, "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices", is published in Dickens's literary magazine, "Household Words", 3-31 October 1857. | |
| 1857/10/31 | Wilkie Collins's and Charles Dickens's, "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices", is published in Harper's Weekly, 31 October to 28 November 1857. |
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