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Peal accession no. 11089. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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What answer could I have given to the enclosed
than the one I did give Verbally to your man (who presented it at
Eleven o'clock at night on tuesday) viz that it seemed to me to re—
quire none you will see on reperusal whether I am right.

to your note of [to—] day (which is.more explicit) all I can say
is that I have no wishes or desires whatever on the subject which
ought to prevent you from adopting at once whatever strikes you as
the fittest to forward your book

as to any fear of compromising me don't let that annoy you — my
cloth protects me from pistol shot[s] besides it is I who ought to
call out Thack y.

It would be more business like were you to write in proyria perso—
na both to McClise and thaCkeray — I fear the latter at least may
have thought so and hence disdained to answer me.

Painters and poets are all cract people apt to take umbrage at i-
maginary offenses. mac is so much of his time with lady Sykes that
I have not seen him this month -

Yrs ,
Wm Harrison Ainsworth Esq F Mahony
Kendal Lodge harrow road
cemetery

My dear Ainsworth

 

The letter is not dated, but the Post Office mark indicates that
it is July 7, 1856.

The quotations which follow are taken from “The Showman of Vanity
Fair The Life of William Makepiece ThaCKeray" by Lionel Stevenson,
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1947.

"A few weeks later [Spring of 1856] after he had returned to Paris.

he [Thackeray] received overtures for his services as illustrator

to another popular novelist. The next book by Harrison Ainsworth,
Crichton, was to be laid largely in Paris; and Father Prout [Fran—
cis Mahony], who was helping Ainsworth with the details of local
color, recommended his friend Thackeray as being well qualified to
make the drawings. Ainsworth sent suggestions to Thackeray, and the
publisher, Macrone, forwarded the proof sheets of the book; but the
drawings were not forthcoming. . . By the beginning of July Ains—
worth made up his mind that he would rather have the book illustra—
ted by Daniel Maclise. Consequently bather Prout was placed in an
awkward position.. . . Thackeray's failure to provide the drawings
was probably caused chieflv by mental disturbance over his love af—
fair. [with Isabella Shawe]. (65)