He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

The first article of the first issue of the Atlantic Monthly (November 1857) is a lengthy obituary for Jerrold. In politics Jerrold was a Liberal and he gave eager sympathy to Lajos Kossuth Giuseppe Mazzini and Louis Blanc. Brock.