Note 52 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, apparently forgetting the reductions in income represented by the 9 Aug. contract calculated Thackeray's income at this point at "almost £600 per month" (Ray, Wisdom, p. 296).
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