BY
ELBERT HUBBARD
WILLIAM MORRIS
Done into print by the Roy-
crofters at the Roycroft
Shop, which is in
East Aurora,
New York,
U.S.A.
Of this edition there were printed and illumined by
hand but nine hundred and twenty-five copies. This
book is Number 923
Elbert Hubbard
This glossary records Thackeray's spelling and capitalization practices for words and phrases in the copy-text of Catherine in cases where the copy-text's forms are unusual, inconsistent, or different from Thackeray's characteristic forms. In addition, the entries that follow contain, where possible, discussions of the usual forms found in Fraser's Magazine; and in all cases a suggestion is made as to whether the copy-text form is likely to be authorial.
B. The 1726 Pamphlets
The murder of John Hayes prompted the appearance of two different pamphlets presenting accounts of the case, pamphlets that were prepared even before the execution of the murderers in May 1726. On April 28, 1726, the Daily Post (2) announced that there was in the press a work entitled The Life of Mrs. Margaret Hays [sic]. This publication, according to the advertisement in the Post, would give
"Not always doth the writer know whither the divine Muse leadeth him."
——The Newcomes, Chapter 10
At the end of April 1839, advertisements for the May issue of Fraser's Magazine announced that the issue would contain, among other items, "Catherine: a Story. By Ikey Solomons, Esq., jun."1
