Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1843 [July 31].

Discussing their cousin Cissy Butler, who is very ill and is being looked after by their aunt Arabella ("Bummy"): "I do fear that, without almost a miracle, it is a lost case-- May God support our poor Bummy. That she is prepared, I am glad to ascertain, however mournful the preparation may be"; inveighing against Thomas Noon Talfourd for criticizing the subscription raised to help support Mary Russell Mitford; telling him that her poem "The Cry of the Children" will be appearing in the next issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: "[I] am quite frightened to look at the print of it, through the excess of my anticipation of Printers' faults-- So stupid as it was in me, not to beg from the first moment, for a proofsheet! So hurriedly as the M.S. copy was transcribed! so rapidly looked over! I shall be sure to be made misunderstandable in spite of myself"; discussing the progress of her work on the poem "A Vision of Poets" ("I have been writing, writing, writing since you went,--& have almost finished a long poem"), and asking whether he thinks she should offer it to Blackwood's or look for another publisher; telling George that their brother Henry has gone away on a trip, without telling anyone where he is going or how long he'll be away, and relaying the reaction at home to this flight: "Oh, I do wish that he were back again! Not that this passion for pilgrimages does not seem to me the most innocent & even deserving of passions!"; sending news of friends and family members; dismissing Matthew Prior's poem "Henry and Emma" as a poor paraphrase of the much older poem "The Not-browne Mayde."