Letter from William Stigand, London, to Madame Blaze de Bury, 1859 March 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

Assuring her that he is doing everything within his powers on her behalf (i.e. to find opportunties for her to contribute to British periodicals); asking her if she contacted the Saturday Review, and suggesting that she submit to them "a review or two on some new French book or on French plays or French theatres"; adding that he had wanted to write on politics for them, but was told by the editor that they would prefer that he start with reviews, and that they sent him some books to that end, but as he has not done, he is "not in much favour" with them; asking if she is interested in the Saturday Review, and saying that he will send back the books, if she is, and "set about at once making up to them again"; noting that (Sir Alexander James) Beresford Hope has started a new review called Bentley's Quarterly, edited by Lord Robert Cecil; saying that he very interested in the article on Lord Elgin, informing her that he has written a notice of it (for publication in the Edinburgh Review), suggesting that she "serve up the same again for some English Review", and stating that "Mr. [Henry] Reeve shall have it tomorrow and I will give him your message"; stating in a postscript that he will see the editor of the Universal Review and tell her what he says, giving his opinion that they might like to have a political correspondent, noting that the Saturday Review has a regular French literary correspondent, but that she could do the political correspondence better than anyone, and that, should she wish it, he believes she will in time get an opportunity to write for a "good daily paper"; suggesting the Illustrated London News as the best weekly publication for her to write for, and mentioning the Illustrated News of the World, he says, is "nothing like so good".