Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to Richard Hengist Horne, Monday [1844 February 12].

Sending him two packets which include the mottos he asked her to write; asking him to make edits to her essay on Dr. Southwood Smith; commenting on his essay on Dickens saying "The paper on Dickens is full of subtle criticism, - perhaps almost too full, considering the nature of the work, - but it was an exceedingly interesting paper to me, & quite carried me off my feet here & there (in a metaphor) by its eloquence. Against Ingoldsby, you are clever in another way - but . . oh! I have no time to talk. But I must say you have discrowned Mary Howitt of her bay most disloyally - S̲h̲e̲, such a true poetess, and in whom is the g̲e̲n̲i̲u̲s̲ of the Howitt's [sic], in its aspectable form! - What c'd induce you to suffer her to be so overthrown, is astonishing to me! Just as if the writing of poems & ballads fell naturally into a parenthesis!!;" asking if he would consider including an essay about Mr. Kenyon and offering her praise of Kenyon's poetry; saying "Moreover he will be remembered hereafter as having 'lived near the rose, ' - - as the friend for years & years, of the Wordsworths, Coleridges, Lambs & all those Immortals - to say nothing of his being listened to now, as one of the most brilliant talkers in the literary circles of London. For kindness, - for the true 'crême de la crême' of human kindness, the full cup of it is continually in his hand - and altogether, it w'd grace your book to say something kind & true of him in it - . . & please me very much besides." suggesting, in a postscript, that it would be wise for him "...to stay a little longer at Brighton, - w'dnt it? - even after you have done with the book - to gather repose & refreshment at leisure."