Letter from Benjamin Disraeli, London, to Catherine Grace Frances Gore, 1829? : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that while in Paris, he received a letter from a "courtly publisher" who planned on bringing out a journal written by "all the wit & fashion about town" (a reference to Henry Colburn's "Court journal"), and soliciting him as a contributor; expressing his dismay at seeing her contributions to the journal appear surrounded by notices, and claiming that he subsequently "dashed off to London - arrived at my rooms, - summoned Colburn - praised you - abused the Court Journal - and told him, that I had come to England merely to write for it"; referring, facetiously, to her identity as the author of "Hungarian tales"; stating that he will remain n London for the rest of the season, and establish the Court journal "on the greatest scale", adding "It is upon your co-operation I depend. You are the only writer connected with it, in whom I have the slightest confidence" and exhorting to "Now exert yourself! Now pour forth you powers!", praising her superior talents as a writer and noting the deficiency of talent and taste of their contemporaries; relating his ambitious plans for the elevation and improvement of the Court journal and deriding some of the magazines current contributors; remarking that, as Mivartinos, he has no interest in courting "popular applause", and stating "I have long since learnt the wisdom of 'Living within my own creation'"; praising her contributions to the magazine and citing her "Diary of a Modiste" as "a model of what the superior & original papers of a publication like The Court Journal should be."