Autograph Note Signed to Thomas Hood, journalist, editor and poet.

One page, 8vo, corners frayed, one spot, text clear and complete. "I feared the objection you mentioned in your note, but I was willing to try 'The Spanish Page' [Velasco [or memoirs of a page, 3 vols, 1846?], as has been sometimes done, piecemeal, for it will be a long time before I shall be able to complete the three volumes. / I send you a small light article purely my own. If you think well of it I should like a proof for I could never make a fair copy of anything I ever wrote." Postscript: "I was not aware of our nearness to each other until I saw Mr Colburn [publisher] last week - the second time for eleven years!"