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Journalist. Attended school in Paris and in London; thereafter received some instruction in drawing. Earned living for a time as scene-painter, illustrator, engraver. For some months edited a half-penny weekly. With intent of becoming a journalist, studied back numbers of the Quarterly Review and the Examiner. In 1851 became contributor to H.W. In 1857 began his long connection with the Daily Telegraph; sent by the paper as "special correspondent" to the U.S., the Continent, and elsewhere. Contributed to the lllustrated Times, Cornhill, the Illustrated London News, Belgravia, and other periodicals. For a short time editor of Welcome Guest; of Temple Bar, 1860-1866. Brought out Sala's Journal, 1892-1894. Published some forty works, fiction and non-fiction, almost all of them reprinted from his periodical writings; also various ephemeral pieces. In 1895 granted Civil List pension of £'100 a year. Regarded by some of his contemporaries as the "great" Sala, the "brilliant" Sala, the man of "commanding talent"; by Matthew Arnold (Friendship's Garland), as the-"'rowdy Philistine".

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Lawyer. Born in Philadelphia. Attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and University of Pennsylvania. Admitted to Philadelphia bar, 1850; had distinguished legal career of more than sixty years. Contributed to periodicals articles on legal and literary subjects; during Civil War, wrote editorials for the Age on matters of national concern; as a Democrat, was opposed to Lincoln's policies (Barratt, Memorial of John Samuel).

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Vocalist and author.

Naturalist. For some years edited Angler's Note-Book and Naturalist's Record. Compiled Provisional Index to a Glossary of Fish Names, pamphlet privately printed, 1879. Edited, from a MS of about 1450, a work attributed to Dame Juliana Berners (or Bernes or Barnes), the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, privately printed, 1883, for presentation to members of English Dialect Society; in 1884 brought out edition of a sixteenth-century work by Leonard Mascall, A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line; in both books acknowledged linguistic help of Prof. W. W. Skeat. Collaborated with Thomas Westwood on Bibliotheca Piscatoria, 1883, an enlarged version of Westwood's original 1861-1869 bibliography; contributed notes and additions to Westwood's 1883 edition of The Chronicle of the "Compleat Angler".

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Office Book only gives contributor's initials and address: 1 Brick Court. Kelly's Post Office London Directory, 1858, lists 1 Brick Court as the address of Andrew Richard Scoble, barrister.

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Not identified. The contributor's article is motivated by "the great events of the last few weeks" in the Crimea, i.e., the siege of Sebastopol, the battles of Balaklava and Inkerman. The writer draws his information from various sources; a "practical work" compiled by "several experienced Artillery officers", John Henry Lefroy's Handbook for Field Service, certain instructions issued by the French Minister of War, and, as seems probable, his own military experience. 

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

Not identified. The writer gives an account of the quicksilver mine at Almaden, Spain, which he has visited. Payment for the contribution made in cash.

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

Public official. Historian. F. R.G.S. Born in London; studied, 1844-1852, under assistant hydrographer to the Navy; abandoned studies in 1852 to accompany his father to Australia. Held various official posts in Melbourne; longest service as registrar of seamen and shipping master for the Port of Melbourne, 1856-1869; in that capacity published The Australian Shipmaster's Guide, 1858. Was important for his research in early Australian history. In 1870 acquired the Colonial Monthly Magazine to serve as repository for information on this subject. Discovered various important historical documents, which were published, under his editorship, by the Victorian Government, as Historical Records of Port Phillip, 1879. Earlier had published A Narrative of Arctic Discovery, 1850; had edited from Capt. Thomas Musgrave's journals the account of the wreck of the Grafton, published as Castaway on the Auckland Isles, 1865.

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Journalist and compiler under his own name and under pseudonym; appears in biographical compilations under pseudonym.

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Not identified. In the Office Book, Meredith is recorded as author of "The Burial of the Old Year"; his name is marked out and substituted by that of Miss Siddons.

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

Writer on railways, emigration, agriculture and livestock; son of Abraham Solomon, M.D. Educated for the law; worked for a time as solicitor in Liverpool; turned to journalism, assuming, in lieu of "Solomon", the name "Sidney"; used it thereafter for all purposes. From 1846 to 1848 published several books on railways and the gauge question. With his brother John Sidney, who had been six years in New South Wales, wrote Sidney's Australian Handbook, 1848; book was immediate popular success; sold thousands of copies. Brought out Sidney's Emigrant's Journal, 1848-1850 (for first few numbers, John Sidney was co-editor). Made speeches on emigration, wrote pamphlets on the subject. In 1852 published The Three Colonies of Australia. Was for many years hunting correspondent and writer on agricultural exhibitions for Illustrated London News; for Live Stock Journal wrote series of articles titled "Horse Chat". Was one of assistant commissioners for Great Exhibition. In 1860 appointed secretary of Agricultural Hall Co.; organized and managed horse shows at the Hall.

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Son of Abraham Solomon, M.D. Like his brother Samuel, changed his name to "Sidney". According to A Voice from the Far Interior of Australia. By a Bushman, "arrived in New South Wales at seventeen years of age, fresh from school, with ... the best sort of English and French education that a lad up to that age gets, when he prefers hunting, shooting, and fishing, to prizes and schoolmasters' praise". Stayed in New South Wales for six years, working "in the wildest parts of the colony" at sheep, cattle, and horse raising. Returned to England, 1844. In 1847 Smith, Elder & Co. published A Voice from the Far Interior of Australia. By a Bushman, with prefatory note reading: "To the magistrates and country gentlemen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, these observations are respectfully addressed, by their obedient humble servant, John Sidney." Samuel Sidney stated, concerning the book: " ... I wrote [it] for my brother, who was a close observer but no writer" ("Preface", The Three Colonies of Australia, 2nd ed.). Co-author with his brother of Sidney's Australian Hand-book, 1848; co-editor with his brother of first numbers of Sidneys Emigrant's Journal. Returned to Australia "in 1848, before the fifth number was published" (Samuel Sidney, "Preface", The Three Colonies of Australia, 2nd ed.).

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Initial not clearly written in Office Book: could be intended for "R" or "F" or "K". The contributor may be Richard Forster Sketchley, assistant keeper of South Kensington Museum, 1864-1894; in charge of Dyce and Forster Collections from time of their arrival. Contributed an occasional verse to Once a Week. Became contributor to Punch in 1864; served as staff member, 1868-1880 (Spielmann, History of "Punch", pp. 368-369).

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Not identified. Perhaps related to the Mr. Smale who in 1853 presented himself at Dickens's hotel in Paris "with an article for Household Words". "Smale's paper was impracticable", wrote Dickens, "but (strange to say) not at all bad" (Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dickens, ed. Dexter, pp. 178, 193).

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Not identified. "The Moral of This Year" concerns the epidemics that swept through England in 1854 killing thousands of people. The contributor may be Edwin C. Smales, author of Echoes of the City, 1883, which has similar sociological interest. 

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

Not identified. The Office Book records "Breakfast with the Black Prince" as arriving at the editorial office "per OIlier". Payment was made by cheque. The article describes the military parade and the reception and other festivities held on the occasion of a ceremonial visit of Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham to Henri Christophe in Cape Henry in 1820. The contributor refers to himself as an officer ("I stepped [into a carriage] with a brother officer"); he was attached to one of the sloops accompanying Popham's flag-ship the Sybille. Among the various Smiths listed in the muster rolls of the seven sloops, the H.W. contributor does not seem possible of identification.

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Smith, Sidney I Sidney Smith I, misc. writer. The Athenaeum, Dec. 22, 1849, reviewing one of Smith's books, more than hinted that "Sidney Smith" was a pseudonym, assumed by the author "on the strength of some supposed affinity" between the thought and language of his book and that of "the writings of Peter Plymley." If the author's name was really Sidney Smith, he had, to be sure, a right to use it, admitted the reviewer grudgingly, and "we have of course no more to say." Sidney Smith was Smith's real name. Author of The Principles of Phrenology, 1838, assigned in some catalogues to Sidney Smith "Phrenologist," but proved by announcement on verso of title page of Whether to Go, and Whither? to be by the writer here discussed. As secretary to National Anti-Corn-Law League, delivered in 1840 three lectures in Devizes, reported in Wiltshire Independent and reprinted as pamphlet, Anti-Corn-Law Lectures. Author of two guide books for emigrants, The Settler's New Home: or The Emigrant's Location and Whether to Go, and Whither?, both published 1849, and brought out in following year under a joint title. In 1849 published also The Mother Country: or, The Spade, the Wastes, and the Eldest Son, an analysis of the agricultural, economic, and social condition of England; dedicated the book to Baron Lionel Rothschild, "In return for much considerate kindness and many useful acts of effective service," and in tribute to Rothschild's character and his management of wealth to the benefit of mankind. The dedication suggests that Falkland. An Historical Play, 1876, dedicated to Alfred de Rothschild "by his obliged servant, Sidney Smith," is probably by the same Sidney Smith. Smith had much interest in seventeenth-century English history.

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Author. Entertainer. Educated at Merchant Taylors' school; studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital. L.S.A., 1838; M.R.C.S., 1838. Practised for a time as surgeon-dentist. Was early contributor to Punch; later, with Angus B. Reach, brought out comic sixpenny monthly, the Man in the Moon, 1847-1849, as rival to Punch. Contributed to Bentley's Miscellany; was for some time dramatic critic of Illustrated London News. Composed plays, burlesques, extravaganzas; wrote satirical sketches that were extremely popular, and novels that Hollingshead called "admirable mixtures of Bulwer and Dickens" (My Lifetime, I, 142). Achieved fame as "one of the lions of the day" by his "entertainments"—lectures, interspersed with songs, jokes, and impersonations, which he delivered in front of large dioarams and for which he provided various properties. The most famous was "The Ascent of Mont Blanc". An element of the vulgar and the ridiculous in the entertainments did not hinder their popularity. Smith himself was thought by some of his contemporaries to be eminently vulgar and obnoxious.

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Smith, Sarah I Mrs. Stretton l, 1832–1911, novelist and writer of children's stories under pseudonym "Hesba Stretton." Born in Shropshire. Attended girls' day school, but gained much of her education by reading books in shop of her father, a bookseller and publisher. Early began writing stories. Her "Jessica's First Prayer" in Sunday at Home, July 1866, thereafter published in book form, won wide popularity; thousands of copies sold; was translated into every European language and into many Asiatic and African languages. Published some fifty titles, many of them short tales issued by Religious Tract Society; also novels: The Clives of Burcot, 1866; The Doctor's Dilemma, 1872; and others. Earned her living by her pen. Took active part in philanthropic and humanitarian movements; assisted Miss Burdett-Coutts in her works of charity.

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