Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1843 July 8.

Commenting on Emilia Tennyson, the poet's sister, who had been engaged to Arthur Henry Hallam before his untimely death, and had recently remarried and named her first son "Arthur Henry Hallam": "Miss Tennyson is a very radically prosaic sister for the great poet,--& does her best to take away the cadence & rhymes of the sentiment of life. What a disgrace to womanhood! The whole is a climax of badness--! to marry at all.. bad! to keep the annuity, having married.. worse! To conglomerate & perpetuate the infidelity & indelicacy, by giving the sacred name to the offspring of the 'lubberly lieutenant'.... worst of all!! [...] I am sorry for Tennyson's sake, & also for Mr. Hallam's [Hallam's father], who behaved nobly in both conferring the annuity & in suffering her to retain it under those changed & grevious circumstances"; discussing Richard Horne's planned visit to Mary Russell Mitford in August, and the success of his epic poem "Orion"; mentioning that John Kenyon praised the poem and guessed that she had been the author of the anonymous essay about it in the Athenaeum; recounting a story from Mr. Kenyon about an American tourist calling on Thomas Carlyle, being turned away, and responding indignantly; mentioning that Mr. Kenyon is himself swamped with Americans and has begged Catherine Sedgwick (the author of Letters from Abroad) not to send any more his way; discussing the poor health of Cissy Butler (EBB's cousin); sending news from their uncle Robert Hedley and his sons; writing that "I am in a poetical fit just now, which is attended with ominous symptoms of having been beaten all over my body."