Letter from Richard Doyle, London, to C. Thurston Thompson, 1849 October 3 : autograph manuscript signed.

Informing him that Longman liked the "Moore illustration" (probably the title page illustration Doyle provided for the 1849 edition of Thomas Moore's Songs, Ballads, and Sacred Songs) and would like him to do "two more of the same kind, to illustrate Miss Landon's poems, as soon as I can" (a probably reference to Longman's 1850 edition of the Poetical works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, which featured title page illustrations by Doyle); requesting that Thompson send him some blocks for the engravings at his earliest convenience, and specifying that as "The Moore subject was smaller than was necessary I will probably do the next rather larger, the same size as the Maclise's [sic] to the same work."; asking Thompson to ask his sister Isabel if she would be willing to engrave one of them, specifying that the book to be published by Hale, Virtue & Co. must wait until the above work is done, but that he hopes "to be assisted in it by your brother Dick as well as your sister, and yourself."; and adding that the publisher wishes him to make one of the drawings first, "and when it is done, to have an interview with you or your brother, for which purpose they ask me to send them your address."