Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 October 4.

Concerning the forthcoming publication of "A New Spirit of the Age;" telling her "...a Publisher has betted money on my hand!;" asking her for a biographical sketch with a list of her works and their dates of publication; adding that he heard she had lost her pet [Flush] but that he had been recovered and asking "Did you idealize the event in verse? I sh'd like to see;" asking, in a postscript, if she has "...a good portrait of yourself which you (or any of your family) would allow to be engraved by the artists of this new work. You will be in 'good company' you know - or I sh'd never ask you - but I do, and much wish it;" asking, in a second postscript, "Is Mr. Kenyon in town? I believe he is intimate with Macaulay, (Hon'ble T.B.) is he not? I want Macaulay's portrait. I greatly admire him;" asking in a third postscript written on the inside of the envelope flap, "Would you 'sit' or 'recline' to Miss Gillies, if the Publishers agree to engage this lady to paint you?"