[4] The next year, he published Loves of Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep, a Rhyming Rigmarole, followed in 1864 by Vere Vereker's Vengeance, a Sensation, and in 1865 by Jingles and Jokes for the Little Folks.

His novels included A Disputed Inheritance (1863), A Golden Heart (1867),[5] The Lost Link (1868),[6] Captain Masters's Children (1865),[7] and Love and Valour (1872).

In 1865 he left the War Office when selected as editor of Fun, a Victorian weekly magazine which became very popular under his direction.

In private life, Hood's geniality and sincere friendliness secured him the affection and esteem of a wide circle of acquaintance.

Hood wrote the burlesque, Robinson Crusoe; or, The Injun Bride and the Injured Wife (1867), together with Gilbert, H. J. Byron, H. S. Leigh and Arthur Sketchley.

[16] Hood died suddenly in his cottage at Peckham Rye, Surrey, on 20 November 1874 and was buried in Nunhead cemetery.

As it is, in my view, and no doubt in that of many others of your readers, an act of dishonesty to imitate another man's book without due acknowledgment,[23] I trust to your sense of justice to allow this reply to the charge brought against me in the above-named article to appear in your forthcoming number.

[24]In 1889 Carroll even inserted an announcement in the back of The Nursery "Alice",[25] correcting his previous explanation and further denying Tom Hood's influence: In October 1887, the writer of an article on "Literature for the Little Ones": in The Nineteenth Century, stated that, in 1864 "TOM HOOD was delighting the world with such works as From Nowhere to the North Pole.