Autograph letter signed with initial : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, [1843 March 24].

Concerning an opportunity for him to publish his poetry in America; expressing his happiness at what she told him "concerning Miss Mitford, and also to find that the Lit'ry Fund has behaved as it ought. But only to think of your proposing me a large audience in America! To write poetry for America --- and to be paid for writing poetry! The eye of the man hath not heard, his ear imagined, nor his nose calculated anything so unexpected as this dream! Besides it even looks real --- for you name the pay! Lastly to think of my making some money through your agency -- and that we should be associated in money-making -- and by Poetry -- and just what poems we please -- and forth-with! O! Yes -- (I have wiped my forehead --) Yes -- I will write poetry for America. But perhaps they will not have me! I quite forgot that. They want you. It is quite another thing proposing a friend, also. Shall I send you copies of any of my doings to send them? Look! perhaps they really know not my name - nor care to know. I am recovering my senses...By the by, Elliot told me to day that they had got 1800£ for Miss Mitford - I understood him to say that sum. What joy."