Trivial as these things may seem now, the arrival in Manchester of the red covers of London Society containing almost every month something new by R. C., were among the events in the life of the young banker's clerk which soon set the tide of his affairs towards London.
"Coming of Age of the Pride of the Family."
Referring to drawings made for the magazine after Midsummer 1872, when Mrs. Ross Church succeeded to the editorship, Caldecott writes to a friend:—
"Florence Marryat wants me to illustrate a novelette, very humorous, to run through five or six numbers of London Society, beginning in February. Engraved illustrations, no 'process.' I think I shall do them, I want coin!"
But he had soon other work in hand as will be seen in the next chapter.