In 1854 he began work as a journalist in London with The Dial (which was afterwards incorporated in The Morning Star), and in 1860 he started a monthly magazine, Weldon's Register of Facts and Occurrences relating to Literature, the Sciences and the Arts, which was later discontinued [REF].
Weldon was interested in parapsychology and was a spiritualist, he was a member of the Society for Psychical Research [REF].