Autograph letter signed with initial : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Tuesday Mor'ng" [1844 April 23].

Concerning the criticism of his book; saying "Your kind and good advice is not lost upon me, as to replying to critics. I shall not do so hastily, nor by wholesale; not perhaps at all in the Second Edition. But either in 2nd or 3rd (for I think a third very probable) I shall make an example (except I find that scorn can do better) of two or three of these pests of Literature. The 'Morning Chronicle' is only worth a laugh (turned back, though, upon the writer of that silly article) and perhaps I shall not address Mr. Thackeray by name, but rather as an Irish Moon-raker. As for the Athenæum, which led the way, and gave the tone to the press, it was certainly Mr. Chorley. I am told this on all sides. I wonder if he is the Pen that has been screeching on paper after every work I have published for some years - and in the Athenæum? I shall find him out, if so, and then stop him, unpleasantly;" commenting on the review of "Orion" in Graham's Magazine; asking when her new volume will be out and offering to read a proof; saying he has "...received many nice letters form strangers about the 'New Spirit of the Age'. It seems to be making way in the country;" adding, in a postscript, "I thought your poem in Graham's very beautiful. But there are few of your poems which I do not think beautiful - in parts, if not wholly."