How or when he made his very first attempt in London, I have not learned; but he had not probably spent his money without forming "press" acquaintances, and had thus found an aperture for the thin end of the wedge.

He wrote for _The Constitutional_, of which he was part proprietor, beginning his work for that paper as a correspondent from Paris.

For a while he was connected with _The Times_ newspaper, though his work there did not I think amount to much.

His first regular employment was on _Fraser's Magazine_, when Mr.Fraser's shop was in Regent Street, when Oliver Yorke was the presumed editor, and among contributors, Carlyle was one of the most notable.

I imagine that the battle of life was difficult enough with him even after he had become one of the leading props of that magazine.