ABSTRACT
During 1847 and the two following years Thackeray wrote and drew so much for Punch that it is only possible to enumerate a few of his contributions. In Edinburgh, Dr. John Brown, a great admirer of the humourist’s writings, had seen a silver statuette of Punch in a jeweller’s window, and suggested to his friends that it should be bought and sent to Thackeray. Anthony Trollope has related that for a week there existed at the Punch office a grudge against Thackeray in reference to this awkward question: ‘what would the people give for our Punch without John Leech ?’ Then he asked the confraternity to dinner—more Thacicerayana—and the confraternity came. Again, Thackeray was honestly pleased when he heard of the increased popularity to which Lloyd’s Newspaper attained under Jerrold’s editorship, and then characteristically declared.
