Thackeray at Work 9781472554260, 9781472509178

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Preface This study depends very largely on unpublished manuscript materials and my gratitude is due to the following libraries, librarians and individuals who have allowed me access and permission: Mr Robert H. Taylor and the University Library at Princeton, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the New York Public Library Manuscripts Division, the College Library at Harvard, the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale, the British Museum Manuscripts Department, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, the Headmaster and Librarian of Charterhouse School. Some parts of this book have appeared before in print. The second part of the chapter on Vanity Fair ('The Waterloo Number') was published in the Princeton University Library Chronicle., 1972; the third part of the same chapter ('The "Vanity Fair" Interpolations') appeared in the Journal of Narrative Technique^ 1973; and the fourth part ('Time and the Novel') first appeared in Anglia, 1971. The chapter 'Henry Esmond and the Virtues of Carelessness' first appeared in Modern Philology (the University of Chicago Press), 1971. I am grateful to the editors and publishers for permission to reprint. I have taken the opportunity to correct some errors of fact or emphasis in revising these pieces for this study. I have had the benefit of scholarly assistance from a number of sources and I particularly want to thank Professor K. J. Fielding of Edinburgh University for his untiring and expert help over many years. I also owe a particular debt of gratitude to Professor Kathleen Tillotson, who pointed out to me an V

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egregious error in my account of the plans Thackeray made for the Waterloo Number of Vanity Fair. At every step in this study I have been assisted by the critical, biographical and editorial work of Gordon N. Ray, an assistance which I gratefully acknowledge. I should like to thank Dr Ray and Mrs Belinda Norman-Butler for permission to quote from Thackeray's Letters and Private Papers. J.A.S.

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Note on Symbols used in the Text Crossings out in Thackeray's manuscripts are indicated thus: | THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD

Interlineations are indicated thus: