Autograph letter signed : Douglas, Isle of Man, to Chatto & Windus, 1887 February 28.

Informing them that Mr. Hiram Tattersall is currently working on an essay entitled "A new novelist" which deals with his books in a favorable manner, and asking if they would be interested in considering it for publication; complaining about the poor reviews he has received for his novels The shadow of a crime and A son of Hagar from J.A. Noble, whom he characterizes as "a nobody who owes me his small envy & general ill-will. He has an article on Leigh Hunt ... in which he describes me as 'brutal', 'impertinent' & so forth"; wondering whether such critics ever consider that their unjust reviews imperil a writer's "bread & butter", and expressing his hope that the recipients will continue to have faith in his book.