Peppé, Mr. I Mr. Peppé, Pepé l. Not identified. Of the two forms of the contributor's name recorded in the Office Book, the correct one is evidently "Peppé"; in the entry for the first item ["The Crocodile Battery", II, 540–43. March 1, 1851], the name is written "Pepé," then overwritten to read "Peppé" ; for the second item ["A Fuqueer's Curse", III, 310–12. June 21, 1851], the name stands as "Pepé." According to his articles, the contributor had been some time in England, then lived in India with his brother in an English settlement; mentions specifically having lived in a northwest province in the summer of 1846. Was in England at the time of writing for H.W., as indicated by the Office Book notation that payment for the second article was "Handed by W.H.W." Was interested in electric apparatuses; both articles deal with his exploits with galvanic batteries. Had some education; refers to books of travel that he has read and quotes two lines from Paradise Lost. His use of the Americanism "snag" (the meaning of which he explains) may indicate that he had been in the U.S. Is a repulsive person who finds satisfaction in blowing crocodiles to bits and in horsewhipping a fakir. 
      Harper's reprinted both contributions, without acknowledgment to H.W.

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