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Initial Identification of Contributors

Information about reviewers in The Times Literary Supplement is found in three primary sources, all housed in the Times Archive. The first are the 'marked copies' of original issues, in which the names of contributors, along with the fee payable, were written on each piece in ink or crayon. The marked copies were microfilmed for the present project. Though not quite complete, they are supplemented by the editorial diaries of The Times, in which main contributors to the Supplement were listed on the date of publication. Finally, there are the journal's stock books: a weekly record of all the material available for publication and its length in inches, used by the editorial staff in making up the paper. Items were crossed out when selected and the list was rewritten for the following week.

Gaps in the record, presumably attributable to successive removals of The Times and its archives between Printing House Square, New Printing House Square, Gray's Inn Road, St John's Gate and the present premises at Wapping, are partly filled by an index for the years 1902-1915 compiled by past members of the archival staff and more recently converted into a database. The precise origins of this index are unknown but while it contains inaccuracies, the compilers evidently had access to some of the materials which have subsequently been lost, so it constitutes a useful fourth source.

In each case, information given in the present index indicates the main source used. Where the identification of a reviewer seems doubtful for any reason, an explanatory note is added. In the small proportion of cases where an item was published with its author's name, this is also made clear. Letters, of course, normally carried their authors' names but where initials or a pseudonym were used, the index provides fuller identification.

Announcements of the project have invited any anonymous contributor who wishes to remain unidentified to contact us. The very small number who have done so will be entered under a code number.