Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Referred to in Dickens's letter to Wills of 29 January 1862 (see Letters, X, p. 26&nn.): 'As I see in Spicer's article, several cases that I know to be in the same books' that Morley had used, at Dickens's suggestion, for an article called 'The Last of the Sea-Kings', HW, III, p. 134, also concerning pirates, 'just glance back at Morley and see that there is no repetition'. The article appears to have been held back a week to allow this check to happen. The main book consulted was Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Pirates, 2 vols (1724); Dickens's copy has several extracts on the fly leaf noted in his hand (Stonehouse, Catalogue of the Library of CD&c., p. 66; Letters, Xshi, p. 26n8.).
