Autograph letter signed with initial : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Thursday mor'ng" [1844 February 22].

Thanking her for her motto for Henry Taylor and saying it "...was so much beyond any pat one I had hoped for, that it made me almost shout for joy. Yet once more, thy bright hand, and for Browning? What motto for Browning - I cannot conceive..What good word can I say for my friend Heraud, so as to be true and concise, yet agreeable. Oh that I were a woman! - then were all these difficulties nothing;" adding, in a postscript, that he feels the motto she sent him for Mrs. Shelley should be more "weighty" and the "Irish Novelists generally something bright. I see I shall die of this last week's impossibilities - for I have none of these things."