Autograph letter signed : [Torquay], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1841 July 25.

Writing that their father still has not made a decision about whether and when she will leave Torquay; telling George that Dr. Scully has lost 650 pounds in the failure of the Newton bank, and also that their father has had a very bad account of the West Indian crops; writing that Charles has given her a copy of Blanchard's life of the poet L.E.L., but she finds it a "dreary, melancholy book": "And then the biographer is parsimonious of her letters,--which always tell a story of life better, than the best abstract of it, elaborated by the cold hands of another"; describing Flush's antics and intelligence: "A sort of dog, George, to whom you could'nt reasonably refuse the franchise, in the case of any liberal extension of it. He understands almost every word you say! I like him to be beside me! It does'nt do anybody any harm"; sending news of the family members and their doings: Henrietta "goes out indefatigably--quite wonderfully to me!--day after day, week after week--the consequence of course being, that when she falls back upon only us, we are found hard & dry", and Charles remains reclusive, "refusing to leave the house, even for the purpose of worship... With us, he talks continually & very cheerfully--I hear him talking for hours together through the wall. But I do wish the other wall of insuperable shyness cd. be thrown down or blown down--or at the very least wd. admit a window."