Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books.
C. L. Gruneisen (DNB), journalist, music critic, editor of the Great Gun. He explores the possibility that the author of Peter Priggins might write for the Great Gun, explaining his policy and agreeing "in Masonic confidence" to give him the names of the principal contributors.(Presumably these names were sent by George Alder above.) According to DNB, Gruneisen edited the Great Gun from 16 Nov. to 28 June 1845, prob. the life of this weekly. (Copy in British Library Newspaper Library.) WITH: Mrs. C.L. Gruneisen, Autograph Letter Signed [1845]), saying she will give Hewlett's note to her husband when she sees him and apparently answering a question about Edwards (see above #3133), "the Proprietor of 'the Great Gun'". He is the Gruneisens' "debtor to a large amount" but has long had Gruneisen's confidence. Originally from a larger archive, the residue of which is described in #3157 (Hewlett's papers), this and other items appear in my ABE inventory in book id#s 3124-3156. Two items,