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Weston-super-Mare
May 8/79

        To W. Allingham, Esq.

    My dear Sir,

        On seeing the announcement that you were about to give up the Editorship of Fraser, my first feeling was a vague sorrow: but this presently changed into a hope that you had found some other more satisfactory work.

        Perhaps I may take the liberty of saying that I have on the whole prized Fraser more since it has been under your mangagement. You seem to have better succeeded in excluding inferior material, under which Mr. Froude groaned, as a necessary incumbrance. I have regretted a tendency towards justifying the slave-party, but the articles have seemed to me of remarkably uniform goodness and intrinsic value, showing a judicious editor.

I am very truly yours,        
F. W. Newman