Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1843 March 13.

Sending news of the health and activities of family members, especially Charles and Arabella; relating the "melancholy story" of the Monro family; mentioning that John Kenyon has told her that Tennyson said to Edward Moxon, "There is only one female poet whom I wish to see.. & that is Miss Barrett", though she has not had confirmation of this from Tennyson directly; telling him that, in the course of a conversation with Kenyon about how poorly poetry sells (in reference to a proposal made by the scientist and author Andrew Crosse), Moxon admitted that he had always regretted declining to publish a book of poetry by her, "& went on to affirm that he had never had a night's sound sleep since, for the aching of his bibliopolic heart, that he was suffering agonies of remorse--wore sackcloth under his linen & ashes in the crown of his hat--after which general confession, the particular terms of which are indifferent, he went on to ask Mr. Kenyon to take a message from him to me, offering to ruin himself for me, & me alone, by accepting any MS. I might please to send him"; asserting, however, that "I am not the least more inclined to print my book, for the pleasure of ruining Mr. Moxon. Besides the fancy has passed with me--for the season"; telling George that the subscription fund for Mary Russell Mitford (to pay her father's debts) has collected thirteen hundred pounds, and that Queen Victoria and Queen Adelaide have both made donations (though the former's was made in secret); writing that the editor Cornelius Mathews has written her and told her to ask for ten pounds immediately, for contributing a piece to the periodical Graham's Miscellany: "They seem to be good paymasters in America"; telling him that "my heart beats very respectably under the change of wind."