TC-[WMR], 31 March. MS: Co. Seely Lib., Newport, Isle of Wight. Pbd: Henry Jervis, “Carlyle and ‘The Germ,’” TLS, 20 August 1938, p. 544, appending the speculation that “it was probably sent to the editors of The Germ, the famous pre-Raphaelite magazine. … The absence of any superscription from the letter is possibly explained by the fact that The Germ was anonymous.” But the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who began the journal, had chosen as ed. William Michael Rossetti, author of the sonnet on the magazine's cover, who was jealous of his position; and though TC may have left it open as to whom he was replying, Rossetti is probably the addressee. The first two nos. of The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art were pbd. in Jan. and Feb., no. 2 selling fewer than 200 copies. An effort was made to keep the journal alive with nos. 3 and 4 (31 March and 30 April), when the name was changed to Art and Poetry, Being Thoughts towards Nature, Conducted Principally by Artists. The first no. included, among others, Thomas Woolner, Ford Madox Brown, Coventry Patmore, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the ed.'s review of Arthur Hugh Clough's The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich.