Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1846 July 15].

Sending him congratulations and good wishes on his birthday; discussing further Benjamin Haydon's bequest to her (see MA 2148.37) and how she and Robert Browning have handled the matter with Thomas Talfourd; writing of her reasons for not wanting to edit Haydon's memoirs: "For the rest, my dearest George, any jealousy was out of the question, be sure--just as it would have been for me to retire from a duty of that sort on the plea of ill health, my health being good enough now to be no source of excuses that way--It was only the impossibility, as I saw it, which hindered me--not to say that in my secret soul I was unwilling to assume such a responsibility"; explaining that it has all been resolved and asking George to not speak with Talfourd about it; commenting on the upcoming marriage between Arabella Hedley and J.J. Bevan; writing that she has met Bevan and likes him: "Yet to hear a man say that it was awful audacity to think for oneself on church subjects--it seemed to me strangely foolish. The people I talk to, are so much in a higher purer atmosphere, that I quite started to hear such a thing from a man with a sensible face"; commenting that she is sorry to learn of the illness of their cousin Isabella Graham-Clarke: "Did you hear of its being desperate, from good authority?"