<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 60; 4to. pp. 3. Kept in a box.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Autograph manuscript of ‘Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Men who, having in my time belonged to Newspapers, have risen to stations of greater or less Eminence. Written chiefly from Personal knowledge’. Title leaf (contents on verso), and eleven (of eighteen proposed) sketches. Those present are: Sir Michael O’Loghlen (3 pp.), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (9 pp.), Sir James Hanmer (4 pp.), John Henry Barrow (4 pp.), Joseph Parkes (6 pp.), Abraham Hayward (3 pp.), John Campbell (8 pp.), Horace Twiss (12 pp., plus a second sketch of Twiss on larger paper, 3 pp.), William Hazlitt the younger (3 pp.), Sir James Bacon (4 pp.), and Edwin Chadwick (3 pp.). Two further sketches are at Folger, and that of John Forster at the Beinecke.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/143624" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>