Letter from Shirley Brooks, London, to Charles Taylor, 1859? : autograph manuscript signed.

Responding to a request for information regarding delays in payment to Madame Blaze de Bury for her contributions to the Literary gazette and explaining why he has not written sooner; saying that he had not written to Blaze de Bury "as I should otherwise have done" because he had hoped to send her "something like an invitation to work elsewhere", and stating that he cannot say more for a few days yet, but that he believes she will hear from a "new editor (not the undersigned) of a new work"; further explaining that he has "strongly advised the proprietors of the L.G. to impress on the new editor of that, (the Revd Henry X-mas - formerly High Church, now Evangelical) that Madame B. de B. was to be retained, if she could be, at any cost", that he hopes they will retain her, that he will express as much when next he sees Rev. Henry Christmas, and asking, in conclusion, that Taylor convey his answers to Madame de Bury. With a note (no place, undated) by Charles Taylor on page 4 addressed to Madame Blaze de Bury: I send this, just received.