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Notes
Maurice Buxton Forman, A Bibliography of The Writings in Prose and Verse of George Meredith (1922), p. 40.
See, for example, Bertha Coolidge, A Catalogue of The Altschul Collection of George Meredith in the Yale University Library (privately printed, 1931), p. 88. Forman and others assume that the offer was accepted.
Tinsley records a visit to Box Hill in his Random Recollections of an Old Publisher (1900), pp. 136-137. He says nothing of the business that took him there and places the visit "thirty or more years back."
Depending on when Tinsley's visit took place, the work in progress could have been either The Adventures of Harry Richmond, which began its serial course in The Cornhill in Sept., 1870; or Beauchamp's Career, the first version of which was finished at the end of 1870.
Tinsley failed in 1870, although he recouped his fortune. See The Hardman Papers: A Further Selection (1865-1868) from the Letters and Papers of Sir William Hardman, ed. by S. M. Ellis (1930), p. 174 n.
The two letters in typescript are noted in Coolidge, p. 163, with the suggested date 1865. The dated A. L. S. was acquired after the publication of the catalogue. Too little information is given in the letters to put them in any wholly satisfactory order. Miss Marjorie Gray Wynne, of the Rare Book Room at Yale, has keen kind enough to furnish me copies of these letters.
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