Autograph Letter Signed to [Richard] Welford [of the Newcastle Chronicle].

12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. 58 lines of text. Clear and complete. On aged paper, with the outer pages grubby and stained. The delay in replying to Welford's letter is due to the fact that it 'fell aside in Edinburgh and did not reach my hands until lately'. 'I was engaged in a veryy subordinate capacity on Taits Magazine when the shilling series commenced - and for some years - and again had it as my own property from 1846 to 1850 and have had it again for some years; yet I do not remember having ever seen a notice in the Newcastle Chronicle'. The reason for this is that Welford's publisher is not 'sending copies or slips of notices. That is a mistake. Nobody can see all the journals - and even if anybody did so notices might slip past unseen.' Troup does not expect 'that a magazine can always be noticed. I am sure it cannot always be approved, and I would be very sorry that anything should be said of it that it does not deserve: and it does not always deserve well.' Asks Welford to 'glance over the latter part of the first article in the No which you will receive with this'. The article is 'of a somewhat different tendency from the opinions of some parties respecting colonising' ('that they should be allowed or encouraged to drift loose when they get old enough - we having paid the expenses meanwhile'). Troup gives his own opinion on the subject.