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An Autobiography (1883, rep. 1980), p. 257.

J. A. Sutherland, "Two Emergencies in the Writing of The Women in White," Yearbook of English Studies, 7 (1977), 148-149.

Cited in Norman Page, ed., Wilkie Collins: The Critical Heritage (1974), p. 130.

See S. M. Ellis, Wilkie Collins Le Fanu and Others (1951), p. 34. References to the pagination in the holograph manuscript are to Wilkie Collins's numbering. I should like to thank the King's School Canterbury for allowing me to publish material in their possession and David Goodes of the School for his kindness.

Square brackets are mine and represent a conjectural reading. Square brackets with no words in them signify words I have been unable to decipher. Each bracketed space represents a word.

The three-volume first edition has slight verbal differences from the serial version reading "said the doctor" for "he said." (III, 357). AYR passages and three-volume text where cited in this article are otherwise the same (but see also fn 7 below). In addition to the Sampson Low first edition I have examined the Dover Paperback reprint (1978) which as G. Robert Stang has pointed out "is a photographic reproduction of the text of the Harper's Illustrated Edition of 1873. Collins helped in the preparation of this edition and in fact dedicated it 'To the American People'" (Nineteenth Century Fiction, 34 [1979], 100).

The first edition reads "Mr. Merrick shook his head" (III, 357).

A suggestion made by Virginia Blain, editor of the World's Classics No Name (1986), in personal correspondence to the present writer. Thanks are also due to Donald Hawes, J. A. Sutherland, and David L. Vander Meulen, who have been most helpful in the preparation of this article.

Unsigned review, Reader, 3 January 1863. Cited in The Critical Heritage, p. 136.

Nineteenth Century Fiction, 34 (1979), 99.