Letter to Cruikshank, 1846

Containers:

Box 1

Scope and content:

One leaf consisting of a letter written to Cruikshank from an author who requested him to submit a paper to "Ainsworth's Magazine"anonymously so as not to "ruin [his] correspondence with Mr. Mortimer." On the verso Cruikshank has written the title "Outlines of Society for Our Own Times and roughed out two portraits, one a profile, the other a three-quarter view. "Our Own Times" was issued in four numbers, the first in April of 1846, and in this first number appeared an etching entitled "Outline of Society in Our Own Times," for which these are preliminary sketches.

Physical description:

one leaf

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