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The first contribution to Punch by Thackeray appears to have been Miss Tickletoby"s Lectures on English History, which was published, with twenty-three illustrations by the author, in the third volume of Punch. This was in 1842. His last contribution was Letters from the East by our own Bashi-Bazouk, in 1854. Within these twelve years, he wrote for the weekly jester not only several considerable series of papers like Jeames"s Diary and Mr. Brown"s Letters to a Young Man about Town, but a great variety of poems, burlesques, and jeux d"esprit in general. When he collected his Miscellanies in 1856 he reprinted a selection of these contributions, and they are to be found distributed in volumes v., vi., vii., xiii., and xix. of this series. After his death, when a definitive edition of bis works was published in London, a volume of Contributions to Punch was included, of which this volume is a reprint, with the addition of several papers omitted, it is difficult to say why, from that collection. There can be but very few of Thackeray"s contributions to Punch which are not to be found in the volumes of this series.
If Fraser"s Magazine was of double service to him in affording him an income and training him for novel-writing, Punch likewise was a happy vehicle of his wit and satire and a steady resource.
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