Corrections & Clarifications

From an issue of The Times from 1841, reprinted last week in the same newspaper, the editor has given an indication how long the Old Printer's Devil has been with us!

"In the Article on the Hoo Union in our paper of Saturday, an important typographical error occurred, the word 'died' being printed for 'did'. The passage should read thus: 'It was a Sunday but neither I nor the child went to church, the child's mother did (not 'died'), and he was flogged for crying after her."

Sometimes, mistakes make interesting reading, isn't it?