He dedicates it to Charles Lever, and in signing the dedication gave his own name.

"Laying aside," he says, "for a moment the travelling title of Mr.Titmarsh, let me acknowledge these favours in my own name, and subscribe myself, &c.
&c., W.M.Thackeray." So he gradually fell into the declaration of his own identity.

In 1844 he made his journey to Turkey and Egypt,--_From Cornhill to Grand Cairo_, as he called it, still using the old nom de plume, but again signing the dedication with his own name.

It was now made to the captain of the vessel in which he encountered that famous white squall, in describing which he has shown the wonderful power he had over words.
In 1846 was commenced, in numbers, the novel which first made his name well known to the world.

This was _Vanity Fair_, a work to which it is evident that he devoted all his mind.