On the 1st of December 1871 there appeared in No. 28 of _The Illustrated Review_ a short Biographical Sketch of Mr. W. Harrison Ainsworth, with a portrait of that gentleman; and in the list of the many and various works written by him the following are placed in chronological order: _No. 1, Rookwood; 2, Jack Shepherd; 3, Guy Fawkes; 4, The Tower of London; 5, Old St. Pau’s; 6, The Miser s Daughter; 7, Windsor Castle; 8, St. James’s; or, The Court of Queen Anne._ Now, six of these works were illustrated entirely by me, and one--Windsor Castle--partly so, numbering altogether One Hundred and Forty-Four of the very best designs and etchings which I have ever produced; and yet in this Biographical Sketch _my name_ is not mentioned in any way as connected with these works, which omission, I thought, was not only very ungenerous but also very unjust. For, if Mr. W. H. Ainsworth did not himself sketch out this ‘Biographical Sketch’ of himself, he must have known full well what the writer was stating; and he might as well have said to that gentleman, ‘Just mention that Mr. George Cruikshank illustrated _several_ of the novels written by me,’ and have given the titles, and also have acknowledged that I _had_ given him the original ideas of _three_ of the tales, and assisted him with suggestions when these works were being produced; and, had he done this, I should have been satisfied. But to be thus ignored altogether not only created a feeling of surprise but also of dissatisfaction. And when it was announced that Mr. Andrew Halliday had dramatised Ainsworth’s _Miser’s Daughter_, I went to see the performance; and when I saw represented on the stage _scenes and characters which had emanated from me_ and my name not mentioned, I then publicly claimed to to be the _originator_ of that romance, and to have suggested the original idea and the characters to Mr. Ainsworth. No. 2, _Jack Shepherd_, illustrated by me, and published in monthly parts in _Bentley’s Miscellany_. This story _originated from Mr. Ainsworth_, and, when preparing it for publication, he showed me about two or three pages of manuscript on ‘post paper’; and _I beg that it may be observed that this was the only bit of manuscript written by this author that I ever saw in the whole course of my life!_ No. 4, _The Tower of London_, the Original Idea of which was suggested by me to Mr. Ainsworth, and also _illustrated_ by me and published in monthly numbers. In this work Mr. Ainsworth and I were _partners_ holding equal shares.