Autograph Letter Signed, to unnamed correspondent [George Cruikshank].

"Frank Fairleigh". Novelist (1818-1864). Three pages, 8vo, bifoliate, sl. dusted, mainly good. "Mr. Austen seems to have written word for word what you wished said abt. Tobacco, but if there is to be much attraction abt. the article, your clever pencil must put it in, for, as it stands it is dull as . . . I was going to add ditch-water ("water" underlined] but I beg to apologise for the inadvertence - as [page 2] the worst kind of fermented liquors! -/ I send by todays post a Prospectus to Mr. Bogue, you must excuse the allusion to cold water but as the Magazine is to be your Godchild, it appeared to me required -/ Do not let Mr. Austin make his article much longer, especially if you wish it to be in our opening [page 3] Number . . .". Smedley edited "George Cruikshank's Magazine" (1854). Bogue published it, and an article on Tobacco ("Tobacco Leaves - No. 1") appeared in the first issue - anonymously. The author can now be identified.