Note 3 to Chapter 5 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.
The best general sources are Plant; Gaskell; and personal reminiscences like those of Charles Manby Smith and Charles Knight.
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