Kimber seems to have successfully made writing his primary career, though SJ writes that he died ‘a victim, in the Meridian of his Life, to his indefatigable Toils in the Republic of Letters’ . He was editor of London Magazine, to which he contributed poems and travel writing. He also wrote novels which garnered considerable success. Much of his work, however, was published anonymously or pseudonymously. Kimber later explicitly identified himself as the author of numerous poems and essays in his General Index to … the ‘London Magazine’ (1760). He compiled an index for the Gentleman's Magazine (1754). He also made translations (of C. P. J. de Crebillon's novel,Heureux orphelins), indexes for law books and histories, wrote manuals, and compiled several peerages. He seems to have dabbled in a little bit of everything.