Autograph letter signed : [place not specified], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1868 July 28.

Writing that he and his sister are planning to leave London later that week for two months' travel in France; commenting that he hopes George will allow himself "I won't say, a holiday, but rather the necessary relaxation from so much painful trouble" (perhaps a reference to the death of Arabella Barrett on June 11); writing that he himself has "not been in a condition to render any service,--but I have sympathized with you however fruitlessly. If now, by any of the strange chances of the world, I still can be of any service, you will count on me, I think. I just write this to give you a day in case there is any thing you would say: in any case, it is equivalent to a good shake of the hand, if I don't find you at the Club presently"; passing along Pen and Sarianna's greetings.