The Morning Chronicle

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

British newspaper.


In the Sherlock Holmes stories

(Note: in 1890, The Morning Chronicle was already closed)

« To THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE. - On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Penn., U.S.A. there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of four pounds a week for purely nominal services. All red-headed men who are sound in body and mind, and above the age of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope's Court, Fleet Street. » (REDH, 71)


History

The Morning Chronicle, 16 march 1825

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication. From 28 June 1769 to March 1789 it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser. From 1789 to its final publication in 1865, it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter, and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist; for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew that were collected and published in book format in 1861 as London Labour and the London Poor; and for publishing other major writers, such as John Stuart Mill. (source : wikipedia)