Letter from George Du Maurier, London, to James Ashcroft Noble, 1894 October 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for sending the "review that s̲h̲o̲u̲l̲d̲ have been" (of Du Maurier's Trilby) which he wrote for the Spectator, and adding that his pleasure is tempered by regret that he was "put to the trouble of writing it, since it has met with such an untoward fate"; guessing that the reason the review was rejected was "the very passage in the book of which you yourself disapprove - and of which perhaps you have only too leniently expressed your disapprobation."; observing that the review the Spectator did choose to publish was "less unfriendly" than he had expected, although it "slaps my knuckles pretty sharply and takes me seriously when I am quite openly talking nonsense - about Berlioz & Wagner, for instance!"; saying that he will try to get Noble a copy of the illustrated American edition Trilby and returning his aforementioned review of the novel.