Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to H.F. Chorley, [1859 November 25].

Critical observations on Chorley's novel Roccabella and its negative representations of the revolutionaries in Italy, with a considered defense of the Risorgimento, the importance of discerning false or misled proponents of great causes from the genuine, and the purpose even the former may serve in inspiring the cause of reform ("... don't condemn all heroes because they breed faquins - even these last do call attention to the corrupt carcass, tho they feed on the same ... Archbishop Cullen gets up and declares that the Pope's subjects love him of all loves, and that nobody but Sir Eardley Wilmot says otherwise; and what should disprove this were the Roccabellas silent this ten years? Even loud talking pulls down a snow-mountain on people's heads ... God speed it!").