TC-WBS, [April?]. Pbd: Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott, ed. W. Minto (1892) 1:160 inc. Tentatively dated by Scott's statement that he sent TC, “in a propitiatory mood, a little book I had published containing two poems: one called ‘Hades’” after having pbd. “with my name in an obscure magazine, a pretended discovery, called More Letters of Oliver Cromwell, in which the style of Oliver was satirised, and the style of Carlyle imitated” (1:159). The parody was evidently of the Squire Papers and probably had been pbd. in Jan. or Feb. TC's reply to Scott's propitiatory gift was thus probably in early spring. William Bell Scott (1811–90; ODNB), poet, painter, and writer on art; studied drawing in Edinburgh and London; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1842–69; taught at govt. schools of design, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1843–64; examiner in art schools, S Kensington, 1864–85; friend of D. G. Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne; ed. works of Blake, Shelley, and other English poets; pbd. many works on art and art history and five vols. of poems, including Hades: or the Transit and The Progress of the Mind. Two Poems (1838). Scott says that he had previously written TC a “complimentary letter” about Heroes, which TC apparently found offensive because Scott received no reply.