A Meeting of Smith and Thackeray in November 1849?

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 25 to Chapter 3 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.

Edgar Harden, realizing the historical difficulties with the story, called it an "apparently figurative account" (Harden, Introduction, p. 393).

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