Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870

The few remaining chapters with which it is proposed to conclude this Adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood , should not be construed as involving presumptuous attempt to divine that full solution of the latter which the pen of its lamented author was not permitted to reach. No further correspondence with the tenor of the unfinished English story is intended than the Adapter will endeavor to justify to his own conscience, and that of his reader, by at least one unmistakable foreshadowing circumstance of the original publication, which, strangely enough, has been wholly overlooked, thus far, by those speculating upon the fate of the missing hero.
See Chapter III., The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
GEO. W, WHEAT & Co, PRINTER, NO. 8 SPRUCE STREET.