In the manuscript diary of Evert A. Duyckinck, under the date April 16, 1844, there occurs the following entry:
I called upon Wikoff and was well satisfied with the further statement of his plans for the Republic. It is to publish a well filled judicious paper on the London standard. He has made the most liberal arrangements for reporters, correspondence, at home and abroad. Thackeray, for instance—Fitzboodle, Titmarsh etc. of Fraser—is his Paris correspondent.
I called upon Wikoff and was well satisfied with the further statement of his plans for the Republic. It is to publish a well filled judicious paper on the London standard. He has made the most liberal arrangements for reporters, correspondence, at home and abroad. Thackeray, for instance—Fitzboodle, Titmarsh etc. of Fraser—is his Paris correspondent.