Note 48 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.
Ray claimed Smith asked Thackeray to edit the magazine at this time and suggested that this letter refers to that offer (Ray, Wisdom, p. 294), but Smith cannot have made such an offer before the end of summer.
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