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Attribution from File 1645 of the Royal Literary Fund archive (British Library): 3rd application, 5 November 1866.

This article is based on an unnamed text on holy water by M. l'Abbé Gaume.  

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens' Dickensian 84 (1988), p. 78. Article reprinted in Spicer's Brought to Book 2 vols (London, 1870).

The article forms part of All the Year Round's long-standing campaign against the Spiritualist Movement in Britain, and while maintaining the usual position of scepticism-cum-disapproval, demonstrates (as usual) the journal's continuing fascination with the theme. It has all the hallmarks of being instigated by Dickens, but the style is not his. It is attributed to sub-editor W. H. Wills in Jean Burton's Heyday of a Wizard (London: G. G. Harrap, 1948; p. 174), a biography of Daniel Dunglas Home, the Spiritualist and Medium whose lecture on 'Spiritualism, its Uses and Abuses'  at Willis's Rooms, 15 February 1866, the article roundly criticises (Wills's initials are given, incorrectly, as 'W.G.'). No evidence for the attribution is given; it is repeated in Letters 11, 226n., again without supporting evidence, but both sources are reliable, and in the absence of rival candidates, Wills's authorship seems a fair supposition.

See also George Manville Fenn, 'In Jeopardy', All the Year Round, XV, No. 353.

Part of a series of articles on South American by Eastwick published in All the Year Round. See also 'To Venezuela: Sailing on a Friday, All the Year Round, XIV, No. 341, 'At la Guaira', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 343, 'At Caracas', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 344, 'To Puerto Cabello', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 349, 'Caracas to Valencia', All the Year Round, XV, No. 350,  'Traits of Republican Life', All the Year Round, XV, No. 353, 'Ermenia', All the Year Round, XV, No. 366, 'Major Milligan's Mistake', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 461 and 'Carabobo', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 466.