Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified recipient, 1888 January 17.

Acknowledging receipt of a royalty check for authoring “our play” (probably a reference to the 1887 production of “The Ballad Monger,” adapted by Walter Herries Pollick and Walter Besant from Banville's “Gringoire” of1866) and thanking him along with Besant; stating that he has been too ill to write sooner.