Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1842 July 11].

Telling George that the family misses him and that they have heard that his work has been written up in the Hereford newspapers; mentioning a copyright dispute that he helped her resolve; thanking him for his response to an essay of hers in the series "Book of the Poets": "only of course, in the greater part of your criticisms, I am right & you are wrong"; telling him that Hugh Stuart Boyd (the editor of the Athenaeum, where the series was being published) has sent her the proofs of the next installment, adding that "of the whole passage about Shakespeare, nobody can find the least sign of its being written by a 'female.' It is impossible to help exulting in the compliment"; writing that she has had a letter from John Kenyon in which he enclosed "several little branches & buds out of Wordsworth's garden, sent to me by Wordsworth himself with kind regards, & affectionate enquiries & all sorts of things"; reporting about her health that "I am wonderfully well--& you may think of me as up at twelve oclock every day--The walking too goes on improvingly: & I have stood up quite alone, altho with a tendency to falling backwards or forwards, & Crow [her maid, Elizabeth Crow] close by to catch me. But I stood."