Note 37 to Chapter 2 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
In the first place there were not a houndred and twenty-four forts round Paris but twenty-four...Secondly I never called H. M. Louis Philippe a Prince among Sovereigns which is absurd: but in reference to His Majesty's great age named him a PRIAM among Sovereigns...Third. The two paragraphs beginning with the words 'Charenton the great lunatic asylum' and ending 'the Government alarm' should be inserted after"; the remainder of the letter is cut off, though Ray surmised the sentence to have ended: "the paragraph ending 'your countersign, Valmy' " (Letters 2: 164).
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