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

Withdrawing their request to have George step in as the second trustee; telling him that he will write to Sir Joseph Arnould and ask him to remain on; discussing the deed (see MA 2148.58 for more about this and the trusteeship) as it was originally drawn up, on John Kenyon's advice, and the changes proposed to it; explaining that he and Elizabeth are both in agreement about the fact that they do not want to send their earnings to be invested in England: "Our money is invested here entirely to our satisfaction,--and the loss at selling out, re-investing, differences of interest, and fresh expence of receiving every payment of the same from England would be extravagant. We shall live in Italy always, and the convenience of our present arrangement causes us to bless ourselves every quarter day at least"; writing that everything they save he invests and adds to their capital, from which he never makes withdrawals; explaining that he intends to make a new will (with George as executor) in which it will be stated that everything he earns, along with Elizabeth's money, will go to Elizabeth and Pen on his death: "[N]obody else in the world has a fraction of a claim to it, and--for other causes of or incitements to injustice in testamentary dispositions, I shall only say that Ba and I know each other for time and, I dare trust, eternity. We differ 'toto coelo' (or rather, 'inferno') as to spirit-rapping, we quarrel sometimes about politics, and estimate peoples' characters with enormous difference, but, in the main, we know each other, I say"; writing that he believes Elizabeth should have control over her own money, and should be free to do with it what she wishes; mentioning that he will tell Arnould that George is willing to help administer the deed, in the event of Robert's death; wishing him "all joy and prosperity in your new domicile."