Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1844 April 3].

Telling George that she is not entirely happy with Richard Horne's portrayal of her in "A New Spirit of the Age", which she feels concentrates on her situation and character, instead of her work: "I am grateful to Mr. Horne, & thoroughly aware of the full kindness of his intentions--but (in the strictest confidence between you & me) I shd. have much preferred his giving a calm & honest estimate of my poetry, in some half page of simple writing, with whatever severity of accompanying stricture. It wd. have been more really flattering to me as a writer"; writing that critics, in their reviews of "A New Spirit of the Age", have been linking her with other writers, such as Harriet Martineau, and disputing Horne's association of her with writers like Caroline Sheridan Norton; summarizing the reviews overall; telling him that she has just received a newly published book titled "Agathonia" direct from the author, but (the author being anonymous) she wonders whether he knows if Caroline Clive wrote it; adding that John Herman Merivale has sent her his translations of Schiller and James Russell Lowell the new edition of his poems; sending news of friends and family members; writing that she dreads losing her maid Elizabeth Crow: "I have not courage or heart to write about the approaching parting with my dear Crow--so inexpressibly painful to me... How I shall ever bear to have a stranger--with my morbid feelings about strangers--I cannot guess."