Autograph letter signed : Bexleyheath [London], to Chatto & Windus, 1885 April 10.

Asking them if it would be alright for him to write the Manchester weekly times to ask them if they would like share a story of his which is to begin serialization next year; notifying them that he plans to send them a rough draft of his new 1 volume novel, requests that they hold it back 3 months so as not to detract from the impact of his previous novel (i.e. The shadow of a crime), and suggesting that they might seek to publish it in a newspaper or magazine ("it is now running in the Liverpool paper but this is a local affair"), or consider the opportunities for it in the American or Australian market.