No unusual incidents marked Thackeray's lectures in St Louis and Cincinatti, though he was fond of relating an anecdote which had Barnham's Hotel, in the former city as its setting. Dining there one day he overheard one Irish waiter say to another:
  'Do you know who that is?'
  'No', was the answer.
  'That', said the first, 'is the celebrated Thacker!'
  'What's he done?'
  'D–d if I know!'

James Sutherland, Ed. The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, 1975

Towards late afternoon Jedd said, "If the Serjeant was here I should be thinking it was time for a wet. I'm that hungry too - hungry as a thacker," and presently they stopped at one of the small thatched ochre-walled pubs for a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer.

H E Bates  The Feast of July, 1954

The peacefulness of Thackers which had held the seasons for five hundred years flowed through me, giving me strength and courage... I knew I had seen them for the last time on this earth, but some day I shall return to be with that brave company of shadows.

Alison Uttley  A Traveller in Time, 1939