THACKERAY

(1828-1896, Journalist & Writer), the first, signed 'W. M. Thackeray' saying that Mr Langley has just brought me the Critic (which I never see or hear of except from him) and which says how you are going to edit the Temple Bar Magazine, and how I have said Hogarth was 'dull verbiage'. Who writes these lies? I mean that lie in the last sentence. Hogarth was not dull, or the deuce is in it. I have always spoken of it as liking it heartily. I thought of Temple Bar for a frontispiece for our own Magazine, and wish prosperity to your's. There are people enough in London to crowd Temple Bar and Corn Hill too, and my belief in our success helps another. May your head long be on the top of the Temple Bar Mag!..., 1 side 8vo., 36 Onslow Square, 27th September with the year put in in another hand as 1860, the second letter is signed with initials asks Where is that note I wrote just now directed to Upton Court near Slough. To say that W. M. Thacker Ay would be happy to be your backer? The note has disappeared under the heap of papers & will turn up 2 months hence or perhaps has gone to the post already. The purport of it you see. A wet blanket is always good hydropathic practice. If we are killed, we are killed. I was, at the Traveller next door and survived the dose. I only had one pill but the man gave it expressly because I was a deed literary fellow..., 1 side 8vo., no place, dated in another hand March