Autograph letter signed : [Brighton], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 August 27.

Providing the London address she should use while he is spending time with his mother; relating news of his visit to Miss Mitford and discussing EBB's poem 'House of Clouds'; explaining that "...I have found that a fixed address was the best means of hitting my migratory habits - or those rather of my mother, who has many fits of change to which her nervous system is unfortunately liable. I did not tell you one hundredth part of all I intended as to my visit to Miss Mitford, for the fact was this 'certain work' I took down there to do I scarcely touched - the people and the place, and the weather, all uniting delightfully to carry me out of the region of penmanship. I was therefore obliged to work against time on my return;" asking "...how you are this weather, for it has been so very fine - so unlike English weather - that I cannot but fancy you must have been out in the air many a time; adding that "Miss Mitford read to me - and with what a melodious feeling she reads poetry - your 'House of Clouds.' I did not know of it before. I thought it very beautiful. You might have told me there was such a thing in the world. Miss Mitford thought it your best production - I, one of them;" commenting, in a postscript, about Miss Mitford's dog whom he believes is the father of EBB's dog.