
I have come over to America to do a series of articles for the Pall Mall Gazette. May I come & have a conversation with yourself for publication in that paper, which is read by most of your English admirers?
I regret I have no letter of introduction to you personally, as I do not know any of your friends, but
I have letters to Cardinal Gibbons, Mr O.W. Holmes,
W. D. Howells & many
more. My work is well known in England & I possess the highest possible testimonials regarding it
from Cardinal Manning, Mr J. A. Froude, Hall Caine,
Grant Allen Mr Justin McCarthy & many more.
Awaiting your reply &
with great respect
I might add that Lord Tennyson lives in the parish in the I. of Wight of which my father is the Rector & that they were both old schoolfellows.
