Dec. 26th, 1851.
SIR,--I find, on referring to a biographical sketch added to an
autograph of the late Thos. Hood, at the time of his death, that that
event took place, as surmised by your correspondent C. ("Current
Notes," p. 90), on 3rd May, 1845.
Yours obediently,
S. S.
Mr. Willis.
Mrs. Fenwick observing in Willis's "Current Notes" that some one
enquires when Hood died, she writes to say, he expired on the 3rd May,
1845. The above information Mr. Willis may depend upon being correct,
as it is from the late Mr. Hood's daughter, who is married to the Rev.
S. Broderip, Rector of Cossington, Somersetshire.
Three Rock Houses, Tenby, Jan. 15, 1852.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.--I. P. (Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851), writes to
G. W.:
"Can you tell me who contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1838,
the pleasant paper, 'Father Tom and the Pope; or a Night at the
Vatican?' The impression prevails here that it was written by Maginn."
_It was understood at the time to be a Mr. Ferguson, a writer in some
Dublin paper,--a Wexford man._