Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books.

Andrew Spottiswoode ( Boase), of the printers and publishers (BBTI as printers only), proprietor of Hood's Magazine from early 1844 (see Jane Hood #3138). Hewlett has obviously followed Hurst's suggestion (above) that he contact Spottiswoode about the editorship of the Pictorial Times and contributions. The latter here replies that there is no vacancy and comments that it is not desirable "to fill up the Pages of a Newspaper with Novels". Something Hewlett wrote goads the rabid Tory Spottiswoode into a diatribe against the "Douglas Jerrold School" of literature and wide-ranging political comment. 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.