Autograph letter signed : Florence, to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1860] October 12.

[EBB]: Thanking him for the good news about the stabilization of Henrietta's pain; discouraging George from his plans to move to the country and take up farming, unless "you mean to take a companion with you into retirement" (i.e. a wife); correcting George and Arabella's impressions of Garibaldi: "He is a hero and loyal--honest--true to the truth--but easily influenced & exposed to the worst influences... Mazzini's people cling about him day & night poisoning his mind too successfully"; listing among the people influencing Garibaldi for ill her "unlucky friend", the writer Jessie Mario; expressing her confidence in a positive outcome: "Still, the resolute & united sentiment of the national party throughout Italy, & the largeness & energy of the mind at Turin [referring to Cavour] have produced their effect, we hope & trust--and the king is likely to be received at Naples with open arms"; questioning French actions in regards to the Pope and the Papal Army; re-affirming her faith in Louis Napoleon; commenting on the positions taken by England, Prussia, Germany, Russia, and Austria in the conflict; writing that they have had a visit from Anthony Trollope ("the clever novelist") who is in Florence seeing his brother Thomas; mentioning that Walter Savage Landor is translating some of his Imaginary Conversations into Italian "for the benefit of Garibaldi"; writing that she and Robert have had lucrative offers from America, which they have turned down, but that in general she has been very well paid by American publishers: "For five short lyrics about Italy, I have a hundred pounds--as much as they sent me for Aurora Leigh...You see literature is not such a bad trade after all--though one works for it in the nervous system, and the returns fluctuate"; mentioning that Robert is going to ask him to be their trustee, in place of Joseph Arnould; asking George to remind Arabella about Elizabeth Sewell's books; [RB]: explaining that John Kenyon had originally appointed Arnould and Henry Fothergill Chorley as trustees, but that since Arnould has been recently appointed to the Supreme Court of Bombay, they fear he is "too busy and distant"; asking George if he would be willing to take Arnould's place.