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A Probable Addition to the Thackeray Canon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

W. C. Desmond Pacey
W. C. Desmond Pacey*
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University of New Brunswick
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In the manuscript diary of Evert A. Duyckinck, under the date April 16, 1844, there occurs the following entry:

I called upon Wikoff and was well satisfied with the further statement of his plans for the Republic. It is to publish a well filled judicious paper on the London standard. He has made the most liberal arrangements for reporters, correspondence, at home and abroad. Thackeray, for instance—Fitzboodle, Titmarsh etc. of Fraser—is his Paris correspondent.

I called upon Wikoff and was well satisfied with the further statement of his plans for the Republic. It is to publish a well filled judicious paper on the London standard. He has made the most liberal arrangements for reporters, correspondence, at home and abroad. Thackeray, for instance—Fitzboodle, Titmarsh etc. of Fraser—is his Paris correspondent.

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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , June 1945 , pp. 606 - 610
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1945

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References

Note 1 in page 606 This diary is in the New York Public Library. Duyckinck was a quite prominent journalist and editor of the mid-nineteenth century, and a friend of such American writers as Irving and Melville.

Note 2 in page 606 Issue of Tuesday, April 16, 1844, in an account of a lawsuit between one Squires and Wikoff.

Note 3 in page 606 Journalism in the United States (N. Y., 1873), p. 577.

Note 4 in page 606 14th. Edition, 851-852.

Note 5 in page 606 Op. cit., iii, 83 (Sept., 1943).

Note 6 in page 607 Thackeray's Works (Biographical Edn., London, 1902), vi, 243.

Note 7 in page 607 This passage is quoted by Ann Ritchie in her introduction to Barry Lyndon (Works, iv, xxv).

Note 8 in page 608 Introduction to Works, v, xxxiii.

Note 9 in page 608 Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, ed. W. A. Wright (London, 1901), i, 164.

Note 10 in page 608 Gordon Ray, Thackeray and France (Harvard Thesis), p. 284.

Note 11 in page 608 Beers, N. P. Willis (Boston, 1892), pp. 253 ff.

Note 12 in page 610 Op. cit., Ch. xix.

Note 13 in page 610 Ibid., Ch. xx.

Note 14 in page 610 The latter, dated February 2, 1844, is quoted by Ann Ritchie in her introduction to Volume v of his Works, pp. xxx–xxxi, as follows: “On giving you my manuscript, I gave it with the express stipulation that unless an immediate payment was made for it, it was not to be used; and you promised me faithfully that in sending the manuscript to you would acquaint him with that condition on my part. The manuscript has been used: the proofs come back with many compliments—but I cannot pay my tradesmen with them; and beg to state what I before said, that I will do nothing without my fee.”