Autograph letter signed initial : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Tuesday Mor'ng" [1843 October 31].

Concerning his use of the essay she is contributing to his book; expressing his pleasure with her essay and saying he would like to consult with her "...on one or two points, as this work progresses - but - will you vow most imperturbable secrecy. Not to breathe a syllable. And when you give me a 'Counsel's Opinion; write it on one side of the note-paper only; for in that case I might very likely apply a wafer to its blank, and pop it down into my m.s. as I work on. The truth is from the quiet you enjoy, and the abstraction from external turmoils and emergencies (added of course to a certain degree of aptitude in the mind) that one does agree with you one does it so very completely and fully in most cases that it is a delight beyond description. When you are right, it comes out as clean, clear, finely and fully said - that I could seldom bear to see a word altered. Therefore if I ask you a thing or two in the course of the work, will you give me an Opinion?...Do you like my move of working 2 together sometimes? I think it works well? I have a fancy to place you in harmonious contrast with the Hon'ble Miss Norton - she is a representative of individualistics you of abstraction - she of bodily form - you of the soul's aspirations &c &c Shall I do this interjectorily?" adding, in a postscript, "You have not written too much. There! That alone these days is some fame."