Thomas, T. M. The two items ["A Suburban Connemara", II,  562–65. March 8, 1851; "Margaret Fuller", V, 121–24. April 24, 1852] are the only items that the Office Book assigns to a "Thomas" with the name accompanied by initials. "A Suburban Connemara" is the third item assigned to a Thomas; payment is recorded as "Handed by W.H.W." "Margaret Fuller" is the eleventh item assigned to a Thomas; payment is recorded as "Advanced by W.H.W." The same payment notations appear for various of the items proved by reprinting to be by William Moy Thomas (see separate entry). Both items deal with subjects in which William Moy Thomas had an interest. "A Suburban Connemara" describes a squalid district of London; William Moy Thomas's "Milton's Golden Lane" does the same. "Margaret Fuller" discusses the American writer; William Moy Thomas, though he confessed that he had little acquaintance with American literature, did write an article on Poe (Pictures in a Mirror). The initials "T.M." seem to be a mis-recording for "W.M."
      The article "Margaret Fuller" motivated Landor's poem "On the Death of M. D'Ossoli and His Wife Margaret Fuller," Examiner, May 8, I852. 

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