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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 47, 18 February 1876, Page 4

The Times of December 18 says : — "It is stated ihat the condemned prisoner, Henry Wainwright, since he has been in Newpate has chiefly spent his time in writing, having been busily engaged in writing an autobiography. The manuscript he intends to present to his wife as the only legacy he can leave ber. It is intimated that the work will contain a full account of his early career, and a full and reliable statement of his part in the late terrible tragedy. He lakes every precaution to prevent even tbe warders who are in attendance in his cell night and day from seeing tbe contents of tbe manuscript, which at night be securely rolls up and places under his pillow, Rnd when, in the daytime, he has to leave the writing-table for an airing in the yard, he carries the manuscript in his pocket. At night be is restless and wakeful, but in no circumstances whatever would there be aoy attempt to pry into his secret. In fact, so stringent are the prison regulations that, though either the governor, or ordinary, or some .warder is present whenever he has any interview with his Iriends, yet all conversation which is held is ordered to be looked upon as confidential and inviolate."