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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Autograph manuscript of the second part (of four) of his parody of Benjamin Disraeli, "Codlingsby. By B. De Shrewsbury, Esq." [Probably London 1847]. 8 pages, 8vo, a working draft in the novelist's upright hand on rectos only, with his revisions (deletions, additions, and alterations) throughout, and with three small pen-and-ink caricature sketches by Thackeray (two on versos), one of a man fishing and another of a young boxer, the manuscript untitled and unsigned, slight strengthening of a fold on verso; half morocco slipcase. "Codlingsby" was first published in four parts in Punch from 24 April to 29 May 1847, as part of a series of parodies of the most celebrated authors of the day by " Punch 's Prize Novelists." "Codlingsby" owes its conception to Disraeli's noted novel Coningsby (1844). The second part (installment) appeared in Punch on 15 May 1847 (some seven deleted lines on pp. 4 and 7 of the manuscript not included in the printed version). This self-contained episode is set in a fictional Cambridge (actually in "Oxbridge," for Thackeray mixes names of colleges, streets, etc., from both Cambridge and Oxford). It tells in Thackeray's usual lively and humorous fashion of "a Town and Gown row" prompted by a boat-race: Rafael Mendoza, the Jewish hero, an unlikely combination of financier, sportsman, and philosopher, intervenes in the fighting to protect the undergraduate Lord Codlingsby against Rullock, "an enormous boatman...the most famous bruiser of Cambridge before whose fists the gownsmen went down like ninepins." With a xerox copy of the four parts of the Punch text of the parody. (2)