Autograph letter signed : London, to Douglas Jerrold, 1849 November 14.

Evidently discussing William Sheldon, with references to the California Gold Rush ("I entirely renounce all share in that "apocalyptic vial," music &c, with all "profits," troubles and other pertinences of the same;--and make it wholly over to you, with charge of replying to Prophetic [William] Sheldon, or of making no reply to him;--and cannot but congratulate you on the astonishing new California Diggings you have here laid open to you, if your heart do not fail!--Or perhaps you will be humane enough to write poor Sheldon one word, and say that neither of us "dare," that really it is as much as a man's life is worth, in the present temper of the times? I should be glad to learn sometime that you had really done so; but as for me, I cannot..").