NMLP P-034818 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09
The Trumpet-Major
Thomas Hardy · Smith, Elder & Co. (London) · 1880
The Good Words serialization (January-December 1880) was edited by Donald Macleod to remove content he judged unsuitable for the magazine's family readership; Hardy restored this material for the three-volume Smith, Elder & Co. book edition, so the October 1880 book text -- not the magazine text -- represents Hardy's fuller version of the novel.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-034818 for "The Trumpet-Major" by Thomas Hardy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034818, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).