Autograph letter signed : Rome, to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1861] April 2.

Writing about the deed of money EBB received from her family, whose terms are newly under discussion; explaining that she had originally agreed, after being persuaded by John Kenyon, to certain terms to prevent there being any suspicion that Robert was marrying her for financial reasons; commenting that this meant that "we suffered for a great many years pecuniary disadvantage from the restrictions of the Deed. We had to live on half the small income at best possible to us--& how much we were pinched & ground down through Robert's resolution to keep out of debt, none of you perhaps ever knew"; writing that Kenyon's bequest has changed their financial status entirely, and they have no incentive to agree to restrictive terms anymore; conceding that "Robert will probably survive me,--agreed even, on my side, that he may remarry.. being a man.. nay, 'being subject to like passions' as other men, he may commit some faint show of bigamy--who knows? But what is absolutely impossible for him is that under any temptation or stress of passion, he could sacrifice what belongs to Peni to another... He is far more capable of committing murder, than of the slightest approach to pecuniary indelicacy"; telling George that if he agrees to accept a trust for them, he "will find everything laid as straight, & smooth for your hand as you could desire,--poets though we be"; mentioning that she does not have the heart to go to England this year.