Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1844 August 10].

Telling George that she has sent him a copy of her just-published Poems, "committing it to your tender mercies as a barrister at Law & critic by grace"; writing that she also sent a copy of the book downstairs to her father, with the page containing the dedication to him cut open: "[W]hen he came up stairs at one oclock, he seemed pleased & touched by it--only the satisfaction to myself in expressing my natural feeling, is deeper (must be) certainly, than any which his tenderness cd. receive"; noting that there is a large advertisement for the book in that day's issue of the Athenaeum; discussing the copies she is distributing between Edward Moxon, Harriet Martineau, and Tennyson; writing that Mary Russell Mitford has decided to go to France next year and take EBB with her; mentioning that John Kenyon has promised to send a copy of the book to the artist and author John Eagles, and that he has been praising the poem "A Drama of Exile" very highly: "If I repeat such things to you I hope you comprehend that I do it less for vanity than to keep up my hopes in the book. I am very nervous & restless indeed--& feel inclined to cry in a parenthesis, every now & then--"; sending news of Jane Hedley and the Hedley family.