BRITISH JOURNALISTS SIR,—Your contributor, Mr. Cyril Ray, under the heading
'Postcript; in your issue of Rine 2, has given a somewhat misleading impression •of the Exhibition of British Journalism at Bethnal Green Museum, a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Mr. Ray writes that 'this is an exhibition concerned more with journals than with journalists,' without explaining that it does, at any rate, include journal- ism by Defoe, Swift. Steele. Fielding. Johnson. Gold- smith, 'Junius,' Wilkes, Hazlitt, Lamb, Lockhart, Cobbett, Leigh Hunt, Dickens. A. G. Gardiner, Mr. T. S. Eliot, and Mr. Hannei Swaffer.
In stating that 'the only journalists whose portraits are exhibited are Barnes. Delane, de Blowitz and William Howard Russell,' he appears to have over- looked William Bewick's fine drawings of Hazlitt, 'Grip's', caricature of Sir Henry Lucy ('Toby, MP,' of Punch), T. W. Wilson's remarkable pencil sketches at the Parnell Commission for the Illus- trated London News, comprising portraits of G. A. Sala, T.P. O'Connor, G. E. Buckle and W. T. Stead, and Maclise's pencil drawings, 'The Fraserians,' por- traying the large team of contributors to Fraser's Magazine.
Although Mr. Ray 'could not find a single refer- ence to the Morning Post,' in fact three issues of that newspaper are exhibited, one of them containing Coleridge's article on Pitt, another Lamb's famous 'The Londoner.'—Yours faithfully, TRENCHARD COX Director and Secretary Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, SW7
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