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

Sending love and good wishes on his birthday; teasing him about his absorption in his career: "you translate the 'vita brevis' by Life's a brief.. and your prospective talk of grey hairs is all metonymy for a chancellor's wig"; sending news of their cousin Cissy Butler's poor health, and hoping that she receives a letter soon from their aunt Arabella ("Bummy"), who is in Cheltenham with the patient; enclosing her signature, as requested by a friend of George's; telling George that Richard Horne has been showing her the letters he has received about his epic poem "Orion", including letters from "Browning, Goëthe-Lewes (meaning that Lewes wrote on Goëthe), Powell, Tomlins of the Synthetic society, Douglas Jerrold, Leigh Hunt, Ld. Lyndhurst & Reade who wd. be greater than all the rest"; commenting on a drawing made by Browning of a spider's web growing from a skull in his writing room, quoting Browning's description of the scene, and including her own reproduction of the drawing; mentioning that John Kenyon has come to see her and that he is very glad about the return of his brother and sister-in-law to England; describing her work: "I am writing such poems--allegorical--philosophical--poetical--ethical--synthetically arranged! I am in a fit of writing--could write all day & night--& long to live by myself for three months in a forest of chesnuts & cedars, in an hourly succession of poetical paragraphs & morphine draughts--Not that I do such a thing!--'The flesh is weak.' And... nota bene, you are not to say a word of morphine when you write next, or something worse may happen than your being sent to school to learn to write!"; enclosing a sonnet (this item is no longer with the letter).