Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew and my Friend, Horace St.John Autographed Letter Signed to Edward Draper, lawyer and writer.

(This letter appeared for sale on the 'Internet' with the following information.)

HORACE ST JOHN Sydenham Park, S.E., 17 March 1875. Journalist and author (see Dictionary of National Biography and Allibone). One page, 8vo, some soiling but text clear and complete, difficult hand, saying: "There has been no [perhaps word (underlined) meaning retraction?] in Punch [underlined]. I am prepared to sustain all I said to you upon oath, and to prove that the injury to me is serious. The enclosed, as you will see, is marked "Private & Confidential"; but it is a part of the "case",and I, therefore, submit it to you." It appears that St John feels he has been libelled in "Punch" and is seeking redress.

‘Punch’ was a satirical magazine originated by Henry Mayhew and Mark Lemon in circa 1841. Mayhew severed his connection with ‘Punch’ in 1845 and is now better known as the instigator of ‘Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and London Poor’; a fourth volume of which was published in circa 1861. Horace St John made a considerable contribution to this book

(The ‘alleged’ ‘Punch’ libel has not yet been traced)

The last notes added by Michael Middleton

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Real Estate

He and his brother Percy were also involved in Real Estate

Connexion with the Roscoes

Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons : Correspondence 1850-1862. by William Stanley Jevons, R. D. Collison Black, Rosamond Könekamp, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) - Economists - 1972 Page 123 15 Horace Stebbing Roscoe St John (1832-88) journalist, youngest son of James Augustus St John (1801-75) author and traveller. ...

Jevons, William Stanley (1835–1882), economist and philosopher of science, was born on 1 September 1835 at 14 Alfred Street, Liverpool, the ninth of the eleven children (of whom only six survived beyond infancy) of Thomas Jevons (1791–1855), iron merchant and inventor, and his wife, Mary Anne Jevons (1795–1845), daughter of William Roscoe of Liverpool and his wife, Jane Griffies. His parents were both Unitarians and had many connections in the nonconformist community of the north of England, which played so large a part in the economic and social development and the intellectual life of Victorian Britain.