Paddington' Pollaky, Private Detective
Page 29
‘Small-Beer Chronicles’, All the Year Round, 20 June 1863
Discover the Royal Pavilion. Brighton: Royal Pavilion Museum, 2009
Drydon, Vaughan. Very Odd Fellows No.1: Pollaky: The Detective of Genius. The Argus: Melbourne, 1934
Dunn, George E. A Gilbert & Sullivan Dictionary. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1936
Fredeman, William E. (ed.). The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 6: The Last Decade Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006
Gardner, Fitzroy. Days and Ways of an Old Bohemian. London: John Murray, 1921 More Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian. London: Hutchinson, 1926
Gilbert, W.S. No Cards 1869 – in Gilbert Before Sullivan. Ed. Jane W. Stedman. London: Routlege & Kegan Paul, 1969
An Old Score. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1869
Gilbert, W.S., and Elliott, Lionel. No Cards. Vocal score. London: Joseph Williams Ltd, 1895
Gilbert, W.S., and Sullivan, Arthur. Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride. A. 1881. Vocal score. London: Chappell & Co., Ltd (1900 edition)
Goddard, Henry. Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner. London: Museum Press, 1956
Griffiths, Arthur. Mysteries of Police and Crime Volume 1. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1901
Haining, Peter (ed.). A Sherlock Holmes Compendium. Warner Books (revised edition), 1994
Hartley, Jenny (ed.). The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Hoerr, Willmer A. ‘The Case of the Archetypical Agent’. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 1968
Juxton, John. Lewis and Lewis: The Life and Times of a Victorian Solicitor. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1984
Kellogg, John Harvey. The Home Hand-Book of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine, Vol. 2. Battle Creek, Michigan: Health Publishing Co., 1880
Kenealy, Dr The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C.D. Tichborne. London: Englishman Office, 1875
Kenealy, Maurice Edward. The Tichborne Tragedy. London: Francis Griffiths, 1913
Kuhns, Matt. Brilliant Deduction. Lakewood, Ohio: Lyon Hall, 2012
Labiche and Lefranc. ‘Frisette 1846’, Théatre Complet de Eugène Labiche, Vol. 3. Paris: Calmann Lévy 1883
Malcolm, James Peller. Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London During the Eighteenth Century Vol. 1. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme 1810
Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich. Werke, Vol. 35. Berlin: Dietz Verlag 1967
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor,Vol 4. London: Griffin, Bohn & Co. 1862 (from London: Griffin, B. Quennell, Peter (ed.) London: Spring Books 1950)
Maynes, Mary Jo; Soland, Birgitte; Benninghaus, Christina, eds. Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750–1960. Chapter 14: Girls in Court. Bright Jones, Elizabeth (Author). Indiana University Press, 2004.
Moran, Benjamin. The Journal of Benjamin Moran 1857–1865,Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948
Morton, J. Madison. Box and Cox (1847). London: Samuel French, 1920
Moss, Alan and Skinner, Keith. The Victorian Detective. Oxford: Shire Publications, 2013
Murray, David Christie. A Novelist’s Notebook. London: Ward & Downey, 1887
Notes and Queries. Twelfth Series – Volume 4. January-December, 1918. London, 1919
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series 1, Vol. 6. Washington. Government Printing Office, 1897
O’Shea, John Augustus. An Iron-Bound City Volume 1. London: Ward and Downey, 1886
Owsley, Harriet C. ‘Henry Shelton Sanford and Federal Surveillance Abroad, 1861–1865’. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Sept.1961), pp. 211–28
Payne, Chris. The Chieftain. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2011
Physical and Moral Condition of the Children and Young Persons Employed in Mines and Manufactories, The. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office/John W. Parker, 1843
Rumbelow, Donald. The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street. Stroud, Gloucestershire. The History Press, 1973
Smith, Phillip Thurmond. Policing Victorian London. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985
Stapleton, J.W. The Great Crime of 1860. London: E. Marlborough & Co., 1861
Summerscale, Kate. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. London: Bloomsbury, 2008
Thompson, Guy and Gould, Malcolm. Historic Building Recording of 11–13 Paddington Green, City of Westminster, London W2 1LG. London: Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, 2010
Walbrook, H.M., The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera: A History and a Comment, 1922. L.V. White & Co., Ltd (p. 65)
Walsh, William S. Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1893
Ware, J. Redding. Passing English of the Victorian Era. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1909
Winkworth, Stephen. Room Two More Guns. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986
Other Sources
Ancestry: www.ancestry.co.uk
Archiv Hlavného Mesta SR Bratislavy (Bratislava City Archives), Markova 1, Bratislava: Rodný Index Nové Mesto Blumental 1770–1888
British Newspaper Archive: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Cambridge University Library: Papers of George Airy
Mrs Pollaky inquiring about her brother RGO 6/43
City of London, London Metropolitan Archives
Minute Book of Proceedings of Committee commencing 4th January 1862 of St Saviour of Proceeding P87/SAV/44
Image of 11 to 13 Paddington Green SC PHL 01 280 56 4056
City of Westminster Archives: Drainage Application 13 Paddington Green WDP1/2/1639/811
Cliftonian, The, Eds Clifton College, March 1869, Vol. 1, p. 306
Family Search: www.familysearch.org
Hartley Library, University of Southampton – Palmerston Papers
PP/MPC/1575 and 1576 – I. Pollaky to Palmerston 1859
PP/GC/SM/47 – Vernon Smith to Palmerston
PP/GC/SM/47 enc. – Mangles to Palmerston
Hertfordshire Archives: DE/K/O26/159 (Pollaky’s correspondence with Lord Lytton)
Leo Baeck Institute, New York
Toni and Gustav Stolper Collection 1866–1990
Photograph of Pollaky
London Gazette: www.london-gazette.co.uk
Metropolitan Police: content.met.police.uk/Site/historypolicing
National Library of Australia: trove.nla.gov.au (Australian newspapers)
Newspaper Archive: newspaperarchive.com
National Archives, London
Folios 86–7: US civil war: French admiral ordered to salute flag of Confederate States PRO 30/22/24/32
Blockade of the ports of the Confederate States. Papers. Part I. FO 414/20
Police correspondence MEPO 2/130
Naturalisation letters 1862 HO 45/7263
Naturalisation papers 1914 HO 144/1345/259618
Naturalisation certificate HO 334/64/25508
Papers relating to Edward Segers, prisoner PRIS 10/238/10
Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Image of Pollaky from the London Figaro
Old Bailey Online: www.oldbaileyonline.org
Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
William Henry Seward Papers, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation Department: Sanford to Seward, Sanford to Pollaky, Pollaky to Seward, Moran to Pollaky
Sanford Museum, Sanford, Florida
HSS Box 139 Folder 12 Morse’s correspondence with Sandford
HSS Box 139 Folders 13 & 14 Pollaky’s correspondence with Sanford
Somerset Heritage Centre Archives: Letters of Lord Derby DDHY/18/4/7–9
University of North Carolina, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collection: Diary of Edward C. Anderson
Thuringian State Archives, Gotha: Information on Ritterkreuz II. Klasse des Herzoglich Sachsen-Ernestinischen Hausordens
Times Digital Archive: gdc.gale.com (Gale Digital Collections)
Will of Ignatius Pollaky (London Probate Department)
Paddington Green Conservation Area Audit of 2003, published by the City of Westminster
Paddington: Report of the Vestry for the year ending 25th March 1871
Paddington Sanitary Report for the year 1870–71. Wm. Hardwicke, M.D.
Report on the Health of Paddington. Wm. Hardwicke, M.D. May 1870
Report on the Health of Paddington. Wm. Hardwicke, M.D. July 1870
Newspapers and Journals
(dates given in body of text)
Cardiff Times
Cheshire Observer
County Observer and Monmouthshire Central Advertiser
Der Deutsche Correspondent, Baltimore
Der Vaterland, Vienna
Dundee Courier and Argus
Evening Courier and Republic, Buffalo, New York
Figaro’s London Sketch Book of Celebrities (The London Figaro)
Fun
Herald and Planter, Texas
Le Palamède, Paris
Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper
London Daily News
Monthly Times of London
Morpeth Herald
Pall Mall Gazette
Public Ledger, Memphis
Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph
Shields Gazette and Daily Telegraph
Western Daily Press
Worcester Journal
The Argus, Melbourne
The Berkshire Chronicle
The British Medical Journal
The Cliftonian
The Cork Examiner
The Cornwall Chronicle
The Courier, Brisbane
The Daily News, London
The Empire, Sydney
The Engineer
The Era
The Examiner
The Falkirk Herald
The Illustrated Photographer
The Isle of Wight Observer
The Jewish Chronicle
The Ladies
The Lancet
The Leeds Times
The Liverpool Mercury
The Manchester Evening News
The Morning Post
The Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser, Queensland
The Newsman
The Northern Echo
The Queensland Times
The South Eastern Gazette
The Southern Reporter
The Standard, London
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Taunton Courier
The Teesdale Mercury
The Times, London
The Tomahawk
The Wells Journal
The Western Mail
The Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
The Worcestershire Chronicle
Plates
1. Pollaky by Faustin Betbeder. 1874. (Courtesy of the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum)
2. Pressburg Castle. De Kaai from De Aarde en haar Volken, 1867. (Author’s collection)
3. Charles Frederick Field, Illustrated News of the World, 1855. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
4. Two cigarette cards of Inspector Bucket from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, with illustrations looking remarkably like Field. The first image is dated around 1900 and the second around 1912. (Author’s collection)
5. Lord Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803–1873), Illustrated London News Extra Supplement, 25 January 1873. (Author’s Collection)
6. James Dunwoody Bulloch. Image from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. (Courtest of the Century Co.,1888)
7. Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891), Library of Congress, Washington DC.
8. Image and obituary of Sir Richard Mayne, Illustrated London News, 9 January 1869. Mayne’s severe countenance may be an indication of his personality, however, it would only be fair to point out that this formal expression was the fashion for official portraits of the time. (Author’s collection)
9. Inspector Jonathan ‘Jack’ Whicher, 1865. Powell of Charing Cross wrote a report to Mayne stating Pollaky was ‘always considered a dangerous man’. (Courtesy of Hampshire County Council Arts and Museum Service, ref. HMCMS: FA2004.141.135)
10. Meikeljohn, Druscovich, Palmer and Froggatt in the dock at the Old Bailey, The Graphic, Saturday, 1 September 1877. (Author’s collection)
11. Numbers 11, 12 and 13 Paddington Green taken in 1956. (Courtesy of the City of London, London Metropolitan Archives)
12. Number 13 Paddington Green (centre) in 2010, shortly before demolition. (Courtesy of Pre-Constuct Archaeology Limited)
13. Back cover of Benjamin D. His Little Dinner, 1876. Pollaky’s advertisement, showing only his name and address, is at
the top of the page. (Author’s collection)
14. Caricature of Pollaky by ‘Whew’ from Benjamin D. His Little Dinner, 1876. (Author’s collection)
15. Number 33 Stanford Avenue, 2014. (Courtesy of K.P. and S.N.)
16. Pollaky family gravestone at the Kensal Green Cemetery. (Photograph by the author)
17. Darrell Fancourt as Colonel Calverley. Photograph taken by H.C. Hughes in the early 1920s. No image of a uniformed Richard Temple, the creator of the role, seems to exist. Fancourt was a famous interpreter of the role for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. (Courtesy of David Stone)
18. Photograph of Pollaky in his later years from the Toni and Gustav Stolper Collection, ref. F12249. The verso reads: ‘Mr. (or Sir?) Polacki grand-uncle of Toni. Noted British detective.’ (Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York)
Cover image: Pollaky by Faustin Betbeder 1874 Courtesy of The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Every effort has been made to secure rights to items in copyright. Any omissions notified to the author or publisher will be credited in any future editions.
Copyright
First published in 2015
The History Press
The Mill, Brimscombe Port
Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG
www.thehistorypress.co.uk
This ebook edition first published in 2015
All rights reserved
© Bryan Kesselman, 2015
The right of Bryan Kesselman to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.
EPUB ISBN 978 0 7509 6331 2
Original typesetting by The History Press
Ebook compilation by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk