Autograph letter signed with initial : London, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 December 4.

Thanking her for her help with and comments on the proof; saying "In such a work as this there is no comfort so great (next to doing a thing honorably) as to have a thoroughly honest friend and assistant in the doing, and for consultation...Printers do sometimes make mistakes as well as authors, But thank you all the same - always correct everything you see that you think at all needs it;" discussing her interpretation of his essay on Leigh Hunt saying "You have pounced upon it - turned it into 'good and evil' and made it a theological question! I never meant anything of the kind. It w'd be to rip up old injuries. A more religious man in his feelings, or a more fine and generous in his sense of moral virtue, I never met. He may have uttered un-pleasantries concerning certain forms of faith, or certain dogmas, or opinions of certain sects. I have no doubt of it - though I never read any of them. This is all my defence - a good, and a true.;" defending his comments on Shakespeare and Chaucer and telling her that Hunt had read the proof of the Introduction; adding that he will send her the revised proof, asking her to write her comments in the margin and asking if she might write "...a page or two about Tennyson."