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Irish writer and poet. Intended to be a painter until Dickens persuaded her to concentrate on her writing.

Not identified. The first and third items attributed to Mulock are letters (or extracts from letters) written by the contributor in 1851, from Geelong, to a friend in England; extracts from other of his letters occupy 4 cols (pp. 215-216) of the second item. According to the letters and the few editorial remarks accompanying them, the contributor was "a recent settler" in Australia, a young man. In partnership with a Mr. Rumble, he had bought a farm at Mount Swardle in the Geelong district and had become a successful farmer. 

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Novelist. According to Dictionary of National Biography, received a good education; according to other accounts, a very defective one. In 1865 married George LilIie Craik, partner in publishing firm of Macmillan. Contributed to Sharpe's, Macmillan's, Good Words, Once a Week, Comhill, Good Words for the Young, Contemporary Review, and other periodicals. Was one of contributors to Victoria Regia. Published more than fifty works—novels, collections of stories, books for the young, essays, poems. Best known as author of John Halifax, Gentleman, 1856. An 1891 supplement AlIibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-1871), stated: "Her books are said to be more widely read than those of any other novelist except Dickens". According to George Eliot, was "read only by novel readers, pure and simple, never by people of high culture" (Letters, Ill, 302). In 1864 granted Civil List pension of £60 a year as "Authoress of 'John Halifax, Gentleman' and other well-known works of fiction" (Colles, Literature and the Pension List).

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According to the Biograph, December 1881, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray "married Clara, the only daughter and heiress of Count Reickhart Usedom; and Anne, daughter of Colonel Sholto Douglas d'Archambault". Other references mention only one marriage of Murray's—that to a "French lady" (F.M. Thomas, comp. and ed., Fifty Years of Fleet Street, p. 212) or to a "Spanish lady" (Dictionary of National Biography) or to a "lady with a Spanish titIe" ("Anecdotal Photographs", Truth, December 29 1881), whose title—de Rethel d'Aragon—Murray assumed on his marrying her, apparently some time after his taking up residence in Paris in 1869. It is "Clara Comitissa de Rethel d' Aragon" whose name appears as Murray's widow on his tomb in the Passy cemetery (Richard Bentley and Son, List of the Principal Publications Issued ... during the Year 1853). Obviously, the order in which the two ladies are named in the Biograph should be reversed; and, if the Biograph article is correct in the matter of names (it is incorrect in some other matters), Murray's first wife—the Mrs. Grenville Murray (Mrs. Murray) of the Office Book entries—was Anne d' Archambault. The date of the first marriage was apparently 1843. In September 1853, from Prince's Island (Sea of Marmara), Murray dedicated Doĭne, or, The National Songs and Legends of Roumania "to her who has been for ten years the companion of my studies; ... who has been the light of my hearth and the pride of my heart—the bride of my youth, the friend of my manhood ...". Children born of the marriage of whom there is record were Reginald (b. ca. 1846) and Douglas (b. 1848) (Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 (1888); Joseph Foster, Men-at-the-Bar: A Biographical Hand-list of the Various Inns of Court (1885)).

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Journalist, member of diplomatic corps. Said to have been natural son of Richard Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Matriculated at Oxford, 1848; did not take degree. Admitted at Inner Temple, 1850. In his early twenties began contributing to periodicals. Entered diplomatic service under patronage of Palmerston; from 1851 to 1868, held posts successively in Vienna, Hanover, Constantinople, Mytilene, and Odessa, in a career marked by bitter friction with officials under whom he served. Returned to England, 1868, and engaged in journalism. An article in an abusive society paper with which he was connected resulted in his being horsewhipped by Lord Carington: in legal proceedings that followed, was charged with perjury; left for France, 1869, while on bail; did not again return to England. In Paris, served as correspondent for Daily News; contributed to Pall Mall Gazette, Cornhill, Illustrated London News, and other English periodicals; also to French and American publications. According to Yates (Recollections and Experiences, p. 451) was rumoured to have conducted a kind of "literary manufactory", it being thought impossible that all the writing credited to him simultaneously should have sprung from one man. Co-founder, with Yates, of the World, 1874. Author of some thirty works, fiction and non-fiction, some of them reprintings of his periodical contributions. Among his well-known books were the "Roving Englishman" series; The Member for Paris, 1871; Young Brown, 1874; French Pictures in English Chalk, 1876, 1878.

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Not identified. Various members, titled and untitled, of the Napier families had connections with India, were interested in art, travelled extensively, and wrote periodical articles and books. The Office Book ascription indicates that the contributor was probably an untitled Napier. His article arrived at the editorial office "per Bradbury".

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

American writer and advocate of healthcare reform and women's rights.

Not identified. The Office Book assigns "The Uses of Sorrow" to "Sophy Traddles", the name being written in quotation marks. The memorandum attached to the entry records a post-office order sent to Miss Norris, Camden House, Peckham. "The Son of Sorrow" is also assigned to "Sophy Traddles", with memorandum of post-office order to Miss Norris, Camden Lodge, Peckharn. For this entry both the name and the notation are marked out; by the marked-out name is written the direction "(See No. 7)"—i.e., the number in which "The Uses of Sorrow" appeared.

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Born Caroline Sheridan. Later Lady Stirling Maxwell. Poet and novelist. Reasonably well educated. Began writing as young girl; during much of her life forced to earn her living by her pen. Industriously edited annuals, contributed to periodicals—New Monthly, Morning Chronicle, Macmillan's, and others. Published The Undying One, The Dream, The Lady of La Garaye, and other poems. Had high contemporary reputation as a poet; called by the Quarterly Review, September 1840 "the Byron of our modern poetesses"; in Horne's New Spirit of the Age, 1844, shared chapter with Elizabeth Barrett. Among her works of fiction, Stuart of Dunleath, 1851, praised by the Examiner, May 3,  as shining "pre-eminent and peerless" among the new novels of the year.

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Irish poet and journalist. Began his career at the Munster News, then became sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, and joined the staff of the Universal News in 1860, of which he later became editor, before moving on to become the editor of the Tablet. Contributed to the Nation and Chambers's Journal as well as All the Year Round. Notable poetical collections include The Emerald Wreath (1865) and Memories of the Irish Franciscans (1871).

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Not identified. Address: Salisbury.  In the Office Book, the name "Thomas", lightly written, is inserted between "Mr." and "Old". Available Salisbury directories do not list a Thomas Old.

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Author of 'From Mr. T. Oldcastle concerning the Coal Exchange'. This item may be the actual writing of a Thomas Oldcastle, or it may be a hoax. The Office Book assigns to Horne the item; it records no payment. Horne was at the time on the H.W. staff.

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Medical officer. The first "Treatment of the Insane" is recorded in the Office Book as "per CD". The initials "CD" are in alignment with the names in the author-column, indicating that the item was originally assigned to Dickens as author; then, before the initials, projecting into the number-column, is inserted the word "per". The article is, thus, unassigned in the Office Book. The second "Treatment of the Insane" is assigned to "Morley & Dr. Oliver". Payment for each item recorded as £2.12.6.

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Miscellaneous writer; son of Charles OIlier, the publisher of Leigh Hunt, Keats, and ShelIey. Privately educated. Contributed to the Athenaeum, the Examiner, the Daily News, and other periodicals. Connected in editorial capacity with the Leader, the Atlas, the London Review. Published a volume of poems.

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Writer, landscape architect, conservationist. Born in Hertford, Connecticut. Desultory schooling; for a year attended lectures at Yale. In early life, interested in engineering and agriculture; for some time occupied in farming as a career. Published Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, 1852. In 1853-1854, contributed to N.Y. Times two series of letters depicting social and economic conditions of the South; the letters later brought out in book form. As landscape architect, designed numerous public grounds, including Central Park in New York City and the capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. Published articles and books on landscape architecture. As conservationist, was instrumental in making public reservations of Yosemite and Niagara Falls. Hon. M.A. Harvard, also Amherst. Hon. LLD. Harvard, also Yale.

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Osborn, Edward Haydon l E. H. Osborn, 30 Upper Gower St. I, b. 1832. Kelly's Post Office London Directory, 1857, lists the resident at the Gower St. address as the Rev. Edward Osborn. The Rev. Edward Osborn, d. 1859, was the father of Edward Haydon Osborn. Edward Haydon Osborn matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, 1852; Bible clerk, 1852–55; demy [scholarship], Magdalen College, 1855–57. Gained Newdigate Prize, 1855, for his "Mosque Rising in the Place of the Temple of Solomon." B.A. 1856. Became inspector of factories, Rochdale. 
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Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971 

Osborne. Not identified. Perhaps Edward Haydon Osbourn (see separate entry). Payment for the contribution made in cash. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971  

Owen, Sir Richard I Professor Owen, Owen l, 1804–1892, naturalist. F.R.S. Studied medicine at Univ. of Edinburgh and at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. M.R.C.S. 1826. Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at Royal College of Surgeons; conservator of Hunterian Museum; superintendent of natural history departments of British Museum; instrumental in establishment of Museum of Natural History, South Kensington. Lecturer on scientific subjects. Contributor for more than sixty years to scientific journals; occasional contributor to general periodicals, e.g., Athenaeum, Quart. Rev., Blackwood's, Edin. Rev. Author of numerous scientific monographs, treatises, books. K.C.B. 1884, and recipient of many other honours.

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