Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to Richard Hengist Horne, 1843 June 14.

Discussing copies she and Miss Mitford would like of his book; saying "After all, it is not (seriously) so very ill - because she may have (has, probably) twentyfive & more 'learned & accomplished friends' & I have not - & Mr. Miller will probably be in a better humour in a second edition than his advertisement gives us present hope of - & I recognize at once the fact that you sh'd not be asked to give your books away actually, as a consequence of your doing so virtually - Virtually - not virtuously. Not in the last do I approve of your distributing the second edition in the manner of the first - The cause of it & the object in it are inscrutable to me - particularly as I dont hold to the common opinion that much poetry has made the author mad. Papa says . . 'Perhaps he is going to shoot the queen, & is preparing evidence of monomania' . . an ingenious conjecture, but not altogether satisfactory - I have seen no criticism at all! The star-gazers will all have their glasses up of course, . . while 'this new planet swims into their ken'. But Orion is a constellation . . is'nt he? Pity my astronomy, if not my ill-temper. . . . which last may not be quite as bad as it seems!"