Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1844 August 4.

Telling him about the last stages of the publication process for her book, including the fact that, because Moxon disapproved of having two volumes of different lengths, she had to write nineteen new pages in a single day to balance it out; telling him that her American publisher, Henry Langley, has sent her a copy of the Democratic Review, with half of her poem "Drama of Exile" in it, as well as a review criticizing Richard Horne's "New Spirit of the Age" and claiming that "there is no true poet in England alive except Wordsworth", though positive mention is also made of Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, Tennyson, Ebenezer Elliott, Caroline Sheridan Norton, and EBB herself; sending family news, including that Octavius ("Occy") has a bad cold, Henrietta's mumps are almost gone, and that Henrietta and Arabella are both working on wedding presents for friends; mentioning that James Martin still has a cough and asking George to suggest to his wife Julia that the two of them leave England for the winter: "It wd. do him good in every way, nerves, spirits & all--& if there is any susceptibility on the chest an English winter is a hazardous future for it, unless the subject turns into a patient in the most literal meaning, & shuts himself up between four walls. Also it is easier to get into such a prison than to get out of it--as in my own case."