Excerpt from Tray Papers: Being Stories, Reviews, Verses, and Sketches (1821-1847)

When I was compiling the Bibliography, appended to my Life of William Makepeace Thackeray, I noted several reviews, short stories, verses, and sketches, not included in any edition of the Collected Works; and it occurred to me that a volume of these neglected pieces would be, if not of considerable literary value, at least of considerable literary interest.

There have been labourers in this field before me. One has collected articles from this paper, another from that magazine; but most of these volumes are out of print, or are published at prohibitive prices, and, with the exception of Mr. M. H. Spielmann"s Thackeray"s Contributions (hitherto unidentified) to "Punch," may be dismissed.

I have endeavoured to include in this volume everything of interest to the lover of the writings of Thackeray which has not been reprinted in the Collected Works, or in Mr. Spielmann"s book.

The republication of the writings of a great man"s youth is, however, a question that is continually being argued. It is urged that people, reading the worst, are inclined to lose their reverence for the best productions of the author and, to a certain extent, I am quite willing to admit this contention.

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