Manuscript describing 'rough idea' of a projected Victorian periodical.

Three pages on octavo bifolium. On creased, aged paper with pinholes and a little staining at head, but with text clear and entire. An interesting and intriguing document, docketed 'Rough idea of title.' The intention is to produce a 24-page magazine the size of Dickens's 'All the Year Round', to be priced at sixpence. 'Two pictures only - One on cover under title to be changed every week by Phiz - Large two page picture in centre to be hand coloured. I can get that done as well as the Trench pictures are done & very cheap - Dicks [publisher?] thinks the idea of handcoloured pictures splendid and is going to try it himself soon. | The paper to be wholly anonymous. Articles to be signed by authors monograms etc '. The magazine is to include 'A Wilkie Collins style of story by C[harles] H[enry] R[oss]', as well as 'Flashy articles [...] and short complete stories of a light kind [...]'. Boasts that he can get 'Swinbourne [sic] the poet', 'Rossetti. art critic', 'Dobson Poet' and eleven others to contribute. Also 'a good many more and at my terms'. If this is not the early (rough) draft proposal for "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", Ross is obviously working his way towards that periodical, first published 1884.