The magazine lasted to 1875. On 25 January 1817, Colburn brought out the first number of the "Literary Gazette", priced at one shilling. It was the earliest weekly newspaper devoted to literature, science, and the arts which obtained reputation and authority. Initially Hannibal Evans Lloyd, and Thomasina Ross who had worked with Lloyd before, appear to have been joint editors. The department of fine arts was under the care of William Paulet Carey. After the twenty-sixth number (19 July 1817) William Jerdan purchased a third share of the property and became sole editor. Messrs. Longman also purchased a third, and the periodical was rapidly successful. In 1842, William Jerdan became sole proprietor. The "Gazette" was incorporated with the "Parthenon" in 1862. On 31 December 1827, Colburn wrote to Jerdan that he had joined the new literary journal, the "Athenaeum," "in consequence of the injustice done to my authors generally" by the "Gazette". In 1828, he founded the "Court Journal"; in the following year he brought out the "United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Gazette"; and he had some interest in the "Sunday Times". A biography of David Lester Richardson recounts the background to Colburn's "Court Journal". Richardson established the "London Weekly Review" in 1827, but was compelled to give it up in 1828; he entered into an agreement under which Colburn would assume control of the journal in return for Richardson receiving a share in the profits of sales of the "London Weekly Review". Colburn ingeniously renamed the publication as the "Court Journal", and Richardson's anticipated rewards evaporated. After the successes of Lady Caroline Lamb's "Glenarvon" (1816) and Lady Morgan's "France" (1817), Colburn, at the suggestion of William Upcott, brought out the first edition of "John Evelyn's Diary" in 1818. It was followed by his publication of "Pepys's Diary" in 1825. At the height of Theodore Hook's headlong London career, Colburn offered him £600. for a novel, and "Sayings and Doings" (1824) was the result. Six thousand copies of the three volumes are said to have been sold. In 1827 he published Thomas Skinner Sturr's anonymous "Richmond, or stories in the life of a Bow Street officer", the earliest collection of detective stories.