[ Morley / "A Brazilian in Bloomsbury" ]
Henry Morley (1822 - 1894) was an English doctor, writer, and editor. A friend of Charles Dickens, he worked at times as a staff writer on the two magazines Dickens edited and owned during his lifetime.
This article, which appeared in one of those magazines edited by Dickens — Household Words for 15 October 1853 — is a discussion of an "ant-bear" (the Giant Anteater) from Brazil being exhibited in London at the time (in Bloomsbury, then as now a fashionable residential and academic part of London), and makes only one metaphorical reference to Newfoundlands. At one point Morley writes that the anteater "is the size of a small bear," and later makes the following observation:
Being now five months old, he stands about as high as a Newfoundland dog. (VIII: 163)